Point Group with multiple INCLUDE conditions

[flemingengineering]

As I understand, if you set a couple of INCLUDE conditions for a particular Point Group, it will include all of the points that meet one condition and all of the points that meet the other condition. If this is so, how would you set it up where the points had to meet the conditions of both to be included in this point group?

[Jay_B]

Not sure what conditions you're after?

On the Include tab in point group properties is where the magic would happen.

Choices are #'s matching, z's matching, name matching, raw desc match, full desc match.

A given Point Group will honor any combo of this filtering criteria based on which categories are checked

(and populated as desired) on Include tab.

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[flemingengineering]

Suppose you want raw desc matching Ground, and elevs matching 100. The desired result being points with Ground as desc with elev of 100. (Not all of the points with Ground as their descs and all of the points with 100 as their elevation).

[Jay_B · Accepted solution]

AFAIK this will require setting up the point group using the Query Builder option.

If some 100 elevations are to remain based on raw desc etc. and some are to be excluded then your into expressions which a query builder can do.

[doni49 · Accepted solution]

I just thought I'd add some graphics to Jay's reply.

Go ahead and make the point group using the "Include" tab.  Then switch to the Query Builder tab.  It'll look like the first image.  Then click on "Modify Query" and change OR to AND.

[johngordon6189]

I tend to turn off point layers that I won't need for my surface and make a point group by windowing the visible points using the point #>select in cad option to create my surface point group. If I have to further discount points from the surface, then I would either add the points to the exclude tab or edit the point group and remove the points. You never know what wild hair is going to make that instrument operator type a funky code and mess up a pre-determined workflow.

[flemingengineering]

Thank you - OR to AND - appears to be the ticket.

[pmascaro]

I'm not sure how this is solved using query builder. Query properties are randomly shuffled once you load in an xref breaking the query for all of the point groups in query builder. This has been an issue for me since 2011 and it's still not addressed in 2019