topic Re: Point style marker in Civil 3D Forum

Point style marker

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 12:13:23 GMT

Hello , i want to change Autocad point for Marker , to cross style marker . I tried to change it to PDMODE . Default is simple point , i try to change it to cross style but wont work. Can someone help?

Re: Point style marker

user181 — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 12:28:06 GMT

Maybe it is a civil 3D cogo point and not an autocad point? If so select the point and look at the properties palette, if it's a cogo point change the Style in the Information section. The Basic style that comes with civil 3D is an x. You can also edit and create your own style.

Re: Point style marker

rkmcswain — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 12:54:28 GMT

~~Did you REGEN after making the change to PDMODE?~~

Okay, in 2018, regardless of the setting of REGENAUTO, changing PDMODE causes a REGEN. So nevermind....

Re: Point style marker

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 12:54:04 GMT

REGEN??

Re: Point style marker

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 12:58:20 GMT

I want to use autocad point for marker , with x mark. Is there anything i can do? I dont know what REGEN is sry. Im new to civil 3D.

Re: Point style marker

Todd_Rogers — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:12:42 GMT

If you want to change the AutoCAD point style, it's PDTYPE, not PDMODE.

Re: Point style marker

rkmcswain — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:20:57 GMT

Todd, someone hacked your account....

PDMODE: http://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2018/ENU/?guid=GUID-82F9BB52-D026-4D6A-ABA6-BF29641F459B

Re: Point style marker

cwr-pae — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:22:21 GMT

Your being new to the program, I recommend you find some training classes or training manuals to learn C3D basics. The learning curve is a huge headache otherwise. This forum can't teach you from scratch how to use the program.

What you want is possible. A quick run down of what to do for the point you are wanting. You will need the manual or classes to understand the some of the terms used or the intermediate steps required that I don't list.

Under the points menu you can create COGO points directly or convert them from ACAD points. Then you need to find, create or edit some point styles to display the points and label them.

Re: Point style marker

Todd_Rogers — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:24:57 GMT

HAR HAR, funny Randy...lol. If he is anything like me, I need to SEE it, not guess at it...

Re: Point style marker

Todd_Rogers — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:29:09 GMT

And YOU get the solution @rkmcswain

Re: Point style marker

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:30:52 GMT

Thank you guys for responding.Thank you Rkmcswain for your solution.

Re: Point style marker

rkmcswain — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:36:21 GMT

I heard an Expert Elite qualification was to have those memorized....?

Re: Point style marker

Todd_Rogers — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:37:57 GMT

I heard another qualification was to not rag on the Autodesk employees...lol