How to Name a Point?

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Explorer

How to Name a Point?

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Explorer
Explorer

Hello all, 

 

I have an AutoCAD file, out of which I want to extract the coordinates into the excel. The points are created through the intersection of the lines. So, to export the coordinates I am placing the "points" there. However, I want to give names to the points like P101, P102... so that while extracting the coordinate data to excel I could get the name of the point automatically.  I can try other methods as well if there is any because there are 100s of points and all the points are getting a name as ''POINT''.

 

Thanks,

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ВeekeeCZ
Consultant
Consultant

Unless you have some vertical (eg. C3D) you are not able to assign a name to a regular point.

What can be done is to make a block that will have an attribute. Something like the attachment.

 

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fatal.error
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Another workaround could be replacing all the POINT objects with TEXT objects.


Set the POSITION X and POSITION Y values of that TEXT objects on each LINE intersection.

 

Fill each CONTENTS value with an unique name. You can try the TCOUNT command to batch rename all the TEXT objects with a sequential number.

 

Finally run the DX command, check only TEXT from the objects list and then check only POSITION X, POSITION Y, POSITION Z and CONTENTS from the properties list.

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vinodkl
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Hi,

 

Here is something similar which I found

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-lt-forum/how-to-create-a-specific-point-label-style/td-p/9355... 

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