How to name points ?

[renan.jose]

Hi, i was studying this support page https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/AutoCAD-... 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 !

[Moshe-A]

@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

or

name each point and redo table.

moshe

[renan.jose]

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

[Moshe-A]

@renan.jose ,

we are talking about attribute block - no?

[pendean]

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?

[renan.jose]

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

[cadffm · Accepted solution]

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.

[cadffm · Accepted solution]

AutoCAD way is a block with attributes, example attached.

[renan.jose]

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

[cadffm]

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.

[BruceMunningsiX]

Thank you.  Just what I was looking for.