My Survey DB (not the cogo points that reside in the dwg file) includes thousands of points. When trying to edit the points ( field crew didn't always use the right codes), It's a real pain to search through so many -- even just scrolling through takes along time.
I was able to create a "Point Group" that includes only the points I want to see. But that point group doesn't allow me to edit the actual Survey point.
Is there a similar way of filtering the point list in the Survey DB?
TIA!
Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician
After you create your point group, try selecting it in the toolspace tab then right click and select Points > edit points. This should open a panorama with only the points in that group and allow you to edit descriptions and extended properties.
I tried that already. But it won't let me do the edits I needed to do. The changes need to be made in the survey DB. The point group only reflects the points within that dwg file (you can even delete these points -- but they'll remain in the survey db but be deleted from the dwg).
Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician
Forgive me, I was not clear in my initial post:
Create a survey point group from the survey tab in the toolspace. If you have a survey database open you can find survey point groups as the last item in the tree for that database. Then select the survey point groupit in the toolspace tab then right click and select Points > edit points. This will open a panorama with only the point in that group which you may then edit.
This allows points in a survey database that are not in the current drawing to be edited.
Thanks. I saw that too and tried it. But it's not defined the same way (unless I'm missing something) -- it prompted me for a name and description and wanted me to check mark the points I want to include in the group. I was hoping for something similar the the point group previously mentioned (where I can tell it to include all points with a raw description of "DB*" or full description of "Ditch Bank" for example).
Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician
The survey point groups are definately lacking in the functionality and user-friendlness that regular point groups have. However, try this:
Right click on your survey point group and go to properties. Sort by description and scroll to where all the "DB" descriptions are. Select the first one then hold shift and select the last one; then right click the header of the Add to Group column, select edit and choose Yes. This will add all the selected points to your group.
I have a couple of ways of dealing with the issue of correcting bad codes that limit my need for survey point groups. First, I go the through point files BEFORE I import them into the survey DB to make as many changes as I can. This saves me a LOT of time up front.
If there are still changes that need to be made after import, I sort the DB by description (as Ian McClain describes), shift-select a group of 'bad'-coded points, then right-click on the 'Description' header and select 'Edit' to make a global change to those points selected. As you know, you may then need to select those points in the drawing as well to 'Apply Description Keys'.
So far in my C3D life I have limited my use of point groups to cogo points as I have found the survey counterpart to be, as you have observed, not as useful.
HTH.