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    Weed / Sort Points

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    07-09-2012 07:13 PM

    I have a group of COGO points that is tightly spaced, say approx. 2 feet between points and I want to weed them out so that several points in an area are deleted and I am left with approx. 10 feet between points.

     

    Can this be done in Civil 3d?  I don't want to interpolate points from a surface.

     

    If anybody is familiar with Hypack software, I am trying to do a 10' sort but in C3D.

     

    Thanks,
    Mark

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    AllenJessup
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    Re: Weed / Sort Points

    07-10-2012 05:40 AM in reply to: 907Trekker

    I don't know how to do that but if you can explain why you want to do that. There may be alternatives.

     

    Allen

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    johnm
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    Re: Weed / Sort Points

    07-10-2012 06:46 AM in reply to: 907Trekker

    I don't know of any automatic method.

     

    You could build a surface with the points, simplify the surface, display it with points only (points set to mode 0 so they look like a dot), explode it twice, use select similar to select all of the resulting autocad points, copy/paste them to a new dig and convert them.

     

    It sounds convoluted but it is a pretty short process.

     

    You would of course lose any descriptions...

     

     

     

     

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    johnm
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    Re: Weed / Sort Points

    07-10-2012 07:13 AM in reply to: 907Trekker

    I would also wonder if Map can help weeding cogo points but I don't think it works well with C3D objects...

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    Re: Weed / Sort Points

    07-10-2012 08:17 AM in reply to: 907Trekker

    Could you give every fifth point a different descriptor by editing the point file in a spread sheet, then reimport, and limit your point displays and/or your surface build by creating a point group with those selected new descriptors?

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