Drag Points to Point Group Bug!

[jharris]

I'm new to Civil3D 2007. For a long time I've been wanting a simple way to creat point groups and add points to them. I found (much to my supprise, as I've been waiting for this since LDD3) that Civil3D finally makes this job easy. Create a new Point Group then Drag points to that group. (I wish you could just "Create New Group from selected points, but dragging is a big step forward")

Problem.
When I drag points to a Point Group, the Group needs to be updated. If I right click and "Update" I loose many of the points. Where if I right click and "Properties" then select the "Include" tab and hit "Apply", all the dragged points stay in the group. I think the problem is the list of points in the Include tab is malformed and when you click apply, the white space etc.. is removed from the list, where if you do the "Update" method only the list of points up to the first comma are included.

Example List: 207-213 , 318 , 340-345

In the above list, with the "Update" method only 207-213 are in the Group.

If I do the "Properties -> Include -> Apply" method, the list is reformatted to look like this: 207-213, 318, 340-345
Notice the leading space before each comma is removed. I think this extra space in the list is whats causing the problem.

Also, is there an easy way to remove points from a Group. If I select points (within a group) and hit delete the points are deleted from the drawing. Shouldn't there be an option to "Remove Points from Group"???


-Jeff

[Anonymous]

You can use the Group Properties and Exclude the points.

Bill

wrote in message news:5216374@discussion.autodesk.com...
I'm new to Civil3D 2007. For a long time I've been wanting a simple way to
creat point groups and add points to them. I found (much to my supprise, as
I've been waiting for this since LDD3) that Civil3D finally makes this job
easy. Create a new Point Group then Drag points to that group. (I wish you
could just "Create New Group from selected points, but dragging is a big
step forward")

Problem.
When I drag points to a Point Group, the Group needs to be updated. If I
right click and "Update" I loose many of the points. Where if I right click
and "Properties" then select the "Include" tab and hit "Apply", all the
dragged points stay in the group. I think the problem is the list of points
in the Include tab is malformed and when you click apply, the white space
etc.. is removed from the list, where if you do the "Update" method only the
list of points up to the first comma are included.

Example List: 207-213 , 318 , 340-345

In the above list, with the "Update" method only 207-213 are in the Group.

If I do the "Properties -> Include -> Apply" method, the list is reformatted
to look like this: 207-213, 318, 340-345
Notice the leading space before each comma is removed. I think this extra
space in the list is whats causing the problem.

Also, is there an easy way to remove points from a Group. If I select
points (within a group) and hit delete the points are deleted from the
drawing. Shouldn't there be an option to "Remove Points from Group"???


-Jeff

[jharris]

Agreed, I could exclude points that way(the same way we've been doing it since LDD3), but shouldn't I be able to browse the points in the group and select the ones I want to exclude/remove from the group without having to write down a list of points on paper then go to exclude points and manually type in the list?
Where is the automation? Its a computer for gods sake, I shouldn't have to write down each point I want to exclude and then type it into the exclude tab, thats a total waste of time, imagine trying to remove 1000 points that werent necessarily in numerical order.

Would be much easier to select the points from the Prospector window and right click and "Remove selected points from Group"