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Project Points In Window - Button is greyed out in Point Group

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Message 1 of 10
KPerison
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Project Points In Window - Button is greyed out in Point Group

I have a surface created by someone else.  There are 100,000+ cogo points and dozens of Point Groups in this dwg, but the only Point Group used to create the surface was "_All Points". Smiley Sad

I want to be able to identify what points are used to build the surface in a particular area.  I thought I could create a dummy point group and select the "Project Points In Window" button to generate a points list, but it is greyed out (see attachment).

Does anyone now why this is greyed out or if there is another way to do this  -  short of adding every single point to the group?

Thx.

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Message 2 of 10
Jay_B
in reply to: KPerison

Turn on points, choose select points in dwg shown on caption, add (window select) these points to your test point group.
C3D 2018.1
C3D 2016 SP4

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Message 3 of 10
KPerison
in reply to: Jay_B

I think what you are telling me to select the other button that is not greyed out (Selection Set in Drawing). Right? 

My issue is the particular cogo points used have had their styles set to _NoDisplay. So i don't actually have anything to select at the moment.  I was hoping the "Project points in WIndow" option would allow me to select and area and display the list of points contained inside that seclection window - without having to turn on every single point in the dwg.

Why would the "Project Points In Window" button be greyed out?

Message 4 of 10
doni49
in reply to: KPerison

It seems this issue has been around for a while.  Here's a post from 2006 complaining of the same thing.

 

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-Civil-3D-General/Unable-to-get-Point-Group-numbers-matching-po...

 

I can confirm that I tested it in 2012 and even with all points ON, this button is disabled for me.



Don Ireland
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Message 5 of 10
AllenJessup
in reply to: KPerison

I believe that the button shouldn't be there at all. I think that the whole dialog was stolen from LDD. It's identical to the LDD one. Instead of removing the button it was just disabled.

 

Since in Civil 3D there are no Project Points. I can't see what that button would do. In LDD you had Project Points vs. Drawing Points. But not in Civil 3D.

 

That's my best guess on the subject. I've just ignored that button since moving from LDD.

 

Allen



Allen Jessup
Engineering Specialist / CAD Manager

Message 6 of 10
doni49
in reply to: AllenJessup


@AllenJessup wrote:

I believe that the button shouldn't be there at all. I think that the whole dialog was stolen from LDD. It's identical to the LDD one. Instead of removing the button it was just disabled.

 

Since in Civil 3D there are no Project Points. I can't see what that button would do. In LDD you had Project Points vs. Drawing Points. But not in Civil 3D.

 

That's my best guess on the subject. I've just ignored that button since moving from LDD.

 

Allen


That sounds like  a pretty good guess as to why it should be removed.  But that leaves the OP trying find a way to do what that would presumably have allowed.

Which is to include points that are within the window'd area.



Don Ireland
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Message 7 of 10
AllenJessup
in reply to: doni49

First the points have to be in the drawing and visible. Then you would have to select the point in the area in question, rt-clk and select Edit Points. The Dummy point group method could also be used but the actual points would have to be available for selection in the drawing.

 

To cut down on display overload. A simple point style could be assigned to All_Points and a No_Display point label style. Then only a simple marker would show for the points.

 

Allen



Allen Jessup
Engineering Specialist / CAD Manager

Message 8 of 10
doni49
in reply to: doni49

The really sad part is that the 2012 help still talks about using this button.

 

Click Project Points In Window and define a window by specifying two points in the drawing. The project northing and easting                        coordinates of the window corners are used to determine which project points are contained in the window. All points in the                        project to which the drawing is attached, and which fall within the window, are included in the point group.

 

http://docs.autodesk.com/CIV3D/2012/ENU/filesCUG/GUID-CE9DFEB8-0E12-48CC-9E8B-BAE112118D1-2935.htm



Don Ireland
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Message 9 of 10
AllenJessup
in reply to: doni49

I just thought of a scenario where that button might work. If you're using Vault to maintain an external point database then it might work. We don't use Vault, so it's just a guess.

 

Allen



Allen Jessup
Engineering Specialist / CAD Manager

Message 10 of 10
KPerison
in reply to: AllenJessup

Allen/Doni,

Here's what I had to do:

  1. Created the Test point group
  2. Made sure the label style was set to _NoDisplay and point style was something small and basic.
  3. On the INCLUDE tab, I selected the toggle below "Include all points".
  4. Moved the Test point goup up to the top of the display order list.
  5. Then whent back to the INCLUDE tab un-checked "Include all points"
  6. Selected "With numbers matching" and used the other button "Selection in Drawing" (Now they are avaialable to pick)
  7. Then you get the point list.

If only the phantom button actually worked.  I'm becoming the master of workarounds.

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