AutoCAD LT - display z coordinates on drawing

[Anonymous]

Hello

I have surveyed a road and have imported the points onto a model, is there a way to show the z coordinates on the model so that all are visible at once?

Thanks

Niall

[pendean]

Please elaborate on "show the z coordinates".

TIA

[Anonymous]

It would be great if i could have a label beside every point showing the z
coordinate (ie the height)

[pendean]

"label" means text, is that info already in your Excel to extract from?
How are you creating the X and Y coordinates labels (text) in your drawing now? DIMORDINATE command?

Have you tried FIELD command (select OBJECT field, then select a point, then choose POSITION and decide if you want X, Y and/or Z)?

[steven-g · Accepted solution]

Here's a block that shows the elevation, insert it at each point and it updates to the height of that point, providing these are points with an actual height, it might need a regen after inserting the points. If your software will let you insert a block rather than a point then so much better.

[Anonymous]

Is there anyway to do this with multiple points at the one time?

[steven-g]

You can run a script, but how you create that would depend on how you have the information to start with. Do you have an excel file with all the information or are you starting with the information in the dwg file?

[Anonymous]

I have the information on a spreadsheet and using the Concatenate function to copy and paste the points onto CAD?

[steven-g]

Well if you can manage to do that to create your points, then just make a few changes on your spread sheet and use the same coordinate information to place text/mtext items and use the Z value for the text contents.