Designating points as Control Points

[pgcole]

I have a couple points that were part of an import event (data from a previous project) which I want to assign as control points for an incoming traverse, is there any way to assign those as control points?  I can't seem to find a way to do that other than perhaps re-importing the specific points as control points and overwriting the existing ones.

Thanks for any help!

Patrick

[tcorey]

There's not a way to change the "Type" of a survey point, but you could export it, delete from Survey database, do another import event and set the point type to Control Point in the import event properties. You don't really have to delete the existing non-control point, but if you don't, the new one will either be ignored or will be "Resolved" meaning it will give the point a Name, like 2.1, and no number, which you cannot change. If you don't use point names, this might be an issue for you.

Or, you could just right click on Control Points, pick New, and hand-input the info on the same point you just deleted.

[pgcole]

Thanks Tim, I more or less did that in the end.  I don't think it would let me delete the points from the survey database, not sure why, so I edited the points file that they came from and re-imported that import event, then imported the control points with "control point" as the type.  Kind of a pain.  I did try to import the specific control points at first thinking it would overwrite but got the "resolve point" result.  I don't use named points so that wasn't a workable option.

In the future I will make sure and separate out the fixed control prior to importing.

Thanks,

Patrick