points to polyline

[Sue Ackerly]

I have road centre line points imported as NEZ. How can I join them with a polyline so I can use it to create a long section?

I rarely use C3D (it shows!). I can join the 46 points with individual lines but can't find how to join them / convert to a polyline. I can join them using a Feature line but can't work out how to make this into an alignment. I have tried pedit and Join.

I will be doing more of this - our Council has about 2,000 km of road for which we have points 50m apart. I don't want to draw polylines from point to point all day.

Sue
Bauhinia Shire Council - Qld Australia

[jwedding]

Call the boys at CadApps Australia. If you have that much to deal with,
you're goign to want to look at Stringer...

--
James Wedding, P.E.
Engineered Efficiency, Inc.
Civil 3D 2007
XP Tablet, SP2, 2GHz, 2G
www.eng-eff.com
www.civil3d.com

[Anonymous]

http://www.dotsoft.com/toolpac.htm
ToolPac>Polyline>Auto Connect
Automatically connect points and blocks to polyline 2D or 3D


wrote in message news:5608744@discussion.autodesk.com...
I have road centre line points imported as NEZ. How can I join them with a
polyline so I can use it to create a long section?

I rarely use C3D (it shows!). I can join the 46 points with individual
lines but can't find how to join them / convert to a polyline. I can join
them using a Feature line but can't work out how to make this into an
alignment. I have tried pedit and Join.

I will be doing more of this - our Council has about 2,000 km of road for
which we have points 50m apart. I don't want to draw polylines from point
to point all day.

Sue
Bauhinia Shire Council - Qld Australia

[Anonymous]

If you are importing the points from an ascii file that has the points in
the correct order then is a simple matter of creating the 3d polyline
directly from that file. Is that what you would like to do?

The lisp file attached will do that for you.
I apologise for the bad code, but it works.

Use appload to load, then importal to run.

Regards,

Jon

[Anonymous]

After you import the points...

3p
'pn
1-46

Or, if you want to make an alignment from the poyline and don't care about
the vertex elevations...

pl
'pn
1-46

Sincerely,
Drew Burgasser
CAD Masters, Inc.
www.cadmasters.com


wrote in message news:5608744@discussion.autodesk.com...
I have road centre line points imported as NEZ. How can I join them with a
polyline so I can use it to create a long section?

I rarely use C3D (it shows!). I can join the 46 points with individual
lines but can't find how to join them / convert to a polyline. I can join
them using a Feature line but can't work out how to make this into an
alignment. I have tried pedit and Join.

I will be doing more of this - our Council has about 2,000 km of road for
which we have points 50m apart. I don't want to draw polylines from point
to point all day.

Sue
Bauhinia Shire Council - Qld Australia

[Anonymous]

And when did that little beauty sneak in? I had no idea you could do that.
I must be getting too reclusive.

Thanks,

Jon

"Drew Burgasser" wrote in message
news:5609020@discussion.autodesk.com...
After you import the points...

3p
'pn
1-46

Or, if you want to make an alignment from the poyline and don't care about
the vertex elevations...

pl
'pn
1-46

Sincerely,
Drew Burgasser
CAD Masters, Inc.
www.cadmasters.com


wrote in message news:5608744@discussion.autodesk.com...
I have road centre line points imported as NEZ. How can I join them with a
polyline so I can use it to create a long section?

I rarely use C3D (it shows!). I can join the 46 points with individual
lines but can't find how to join them / convert to a polyline. I can join
them using a Feature line but can't work out how to make this into an
alignment. I have tried pedit and Join.

I will be doing more of this - our Council has about 2,000 km of road for
which we have points 50m apart. I don't want to draw polylines from point
to point all day.

Sue
Bauhinia Shire Council - Qld Australia

[Anonymous]

from day one...

Peter Funk
Civil 3D Product Manager
Autodesk, Inc.

[Anonymous]

Jon,

It's just the command line input for the point number transparent command.
If you don't know about transparent commands, you REALLY need to experiment
and play with them!

--
Brian
http://www.ctcivil.com
http://cadcafe.blogspot.com


"jon" wrote in message
news:5609224@discussion.autodesk.com...
And when did that little beauty sneak in? I had no idea you could do that.
I must be getting too reclusive.

Thanks,

Jon

"Drew Burgasser" wrote in message
news:5609020@discussion.autodesk.com...
After you import the points...

3p
'pn
1-46

Or, if you want to make an alignment from the poyline and don't care about
the vertex elevations...

pl
'pn
1-46

Sincerely,
Drew Burgasser
CAD Masters, Inc.
www.cadmasters.com


wrote in message news:5608744@discussion.autodesk.com...
I have road centre line points imported as NEZ. How can I join them with a
polyline so I can use it to create a long section?

I rarely use C3D (it shows!). I can join the 46 points with individual
lines but can't find how to join them / convert to a polyline. I can join
them using a Feature line but can't work out how to make this into an
alignment. I have tried pedit and Join.

I will be doing more of this - our Council has about 2,000 km of road for
which we have points 50m apart. I don't want to draw polylines from point
to point all day.

Sue
Bauhinia Shire Council - Qld Australia

[Anonymous]

Salt in the wound.....

Jon

; "Inc" wrote in message
news:5609541@discussion.autodesk.com...
from day one...

Peter Funk
Civil 3D Product Manager
Autodesk, Inc.

[Anonymous]

I knew you could supply a point number: just never even considered you could
supply more than one at a time, let alone a range of them.

We used to have a User Group here in my home town (15 years ago) where this
sort of simple, powerful tool would be brought to light. There is always
something to learn.

Jon

"Brian Hailey" wrote in message
news:5609622@discussion.autodesk.com...
Jon,

It's just the command line input for the point number transparent command.
If you don't know about transparent commands, you REALLY need to experiment
and play with them!

--
Brian
http://www.ctcivil.com
http://cadcafe.blogspot.com


"jon" wrote in message
news:5609224@discussion.autodesk.com...
And when did that little beauty sneak in? I had no idea you could do that.
I must be getting too reclusive.

Thanks,

Jon

"Drew Burgasser" wrote in message
news:5609020@discussion.autodesk.com...
After you import the points...

3p
'pn
1-46

Or, if you want to make an alignment from the poyline and don't care about
the vertex elevations...

pl
'pn
1-46

Sincerely,
Drew Burgasser
CAD Masters, Inc.
www.cadmasters.com


wrote in message news:5608744@discussion.autodesk.com...
I have road centre line points imported as NEZ. How can I join them with a
polyline so I can use it to create a long section?

I rarely use C3D (it shows!). I can join the 46 points with individual
lines but can't find how to join them / convert to a polyline. I can join
them using a Feature line but can't work out how to make this into an
alignment. I have tried pedit and Join.

I will be doing more of this - our Council has about 2,000 km of road for
which we have points 50m apart. I don't want to draw polylines from point
to point all day.

Sue
Bauhinia Shire Council - Qld Australia

[Anonymous]

I've got a web cast this week. I'll see how many of these I can add in. For
AU I'll make sure that I have even more for my "Tips and Tricks" class.

Cheers,

Peter Funk
Product Manager Civil 3D
Autodesk, Inc.

[Efren]

If you're saying AEC_POINT entities, I have a vba program I did few years back using LDD. I tweaked it to suit C3D points. It sorts the sequence based on Point Number, or based on selection.

email me if you want this for free.
Efren (efrenabella at gmail.com)

[Anonymous]

I'll thank you in person this year at the AU.

Regards,

Jon
; "Inc" wrote in message
news:5610123@discussion.autodesk.com...
I've got a web cast this week. I'll see how many of these I can add in. For
AU I'll make sure that I have even more for my "Tips and Tricks" class.

Cheers,

Peter Funk
Product Manager Civil 3D
Autodesk, Inc.

[Anonymous]

Look for the class schedule to be posted early this summer. We've got a
great lineup of over 60 classes for Civil 3D, including the return of the 12
class "Power Track"

See you there!

Peter Funk
Product Manager Civil 3D
Autodesk, Inc.

[jwedding]

Glory hound.

--
James Wedding, P.E.
Engineered Efficiency, Inc.
Civil 3D 2007
XP Tablet, SP2, 2GHz, 2G
www.eng-eff.com
www.civil3d.com