topic Re: How to name points ? in AutoCAD Forum

How to name points ?

renan.jose — Tue, 14 May 2019 15:25:57 GMT

Hi, i was studying this support page https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/AutoCAD-creating-a-list-with-point-coordinates-inside-a-drawing-and-as-external-list.html about creating a list with point coordinates inside a drawing and as external list and it worked fine (dataextraction command) but i couldn't find an option in the point properties to change its name from "point" to p1, p1, p3 etc.

How do i do that ? how do i give specific names to the points of my drawing ? Also, how do i insert a label with the name and the X,Y coordinates for each of the points ? Thanks !

Re: How to name points ?

Moshe-A — Tue, 14 May 2019 16:45:02 GMT

@renan.jose hi,

the point block you defined contains an attribute tag NAME and is default value is 'point'. cause you did not specified any name to points at the time you insert them DATAEXTRACTION takes the default value. to fix this you have 2 options:

edit the table fields

name each point and redo table.

moshe

Re: How to name points ?

renan.jose — Tue, 14 May 2019 20:13:23 GMT

But the question is how do i name the points ? Thanks

Re: How to name points ?

Moshe-A — Tue, 14 May 2019 20:32:41 GMT

@renan.jose ,

we are talking about attribute block - no?

Re: How to name points ?

pendean — Tue, 14 May 2019 20:40:14 GMT

You wrote: "But the question is how do i name the points ?"

From your tutorial link:
"Create an attribute - to store / set the name of each point"

Did you do that part yet?

Re: How to name points ?

renan.jose — Tue, 14 May 2019 23:02:04 GMT

Not really, actually i never heard about, do i need to "create" a new property for "point" so i can name it ?

Re: How to name points ?

cadffm — Wed, 15 May 2019 06:08:21 GMT

In AUTOCAD a Point is a Point, you can not name a point or similar.

But your picture display a CIVIL Job (Autodesk CIVIL3D) and in this software are other "points" available and this is what you are looking for!

I guess AutoCAD is the wrong software for you, in Civil you have "Cogo Points" - Click.

Re: How to name points ?

cadffm — Wed, 15 May 2019 06:10:26 GMT

AutoCAD way is a block with attributes, example attached.

Re: How to name points ?

renan.jose — Wed, 15 May 2019 14:12:08 GMT

Nice! how do i insert those blocks ? which is the command ? Thanks

Re: How to name points ?

cadffm — Wed, 15 May 2019 14:23:02 GMT

Sorry ´, but you should learn a programm from start to the end, from a to z, from... you know what i mean?

http://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2020/ENU/?guid=GUID-9C9FF3BC-7275-44E8-93D4-00A2F50BC96D

Answer:

Command: INSERT create a blockreference if a the blockdefinition whith this name is reachable.

Also you have access via DESIGNCENTER [CTRL+2] to import a Blockdefinition from one file to another,

and a lot more things - i can not all write down now.

Re: How to name points ?

BruceMunningsiX — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 06:41:44 GMT

Thank you. Just what I was looking for.