Converting Attributed Blocks to Cogo Points

[Anonymous]

Hello! My office recently went from using AutoCAD 2004 to AutoCAD 2018 (I know -- big jump) and we are struggling to figure out how to take our old 2004 attributed points blocks and turn them into cogo points. I have found this article, and it helps mostly, but once the cogo points are created, the description is missing and the point number isn't retained (ex: if I convert an attributed block that has the point number as 1001, the description as 'tree', and an elevation of 651.21, it only reads as point number '1' with an elevation of 651.210 after I convert it.)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[MMcCall402]

You could run a Data Extraction on the blocks to gather the point#, description, x,y,z of the blocks and save it as a .csv file.  Then import that csv as a points file.

[ToddRogers-WPM]

The command is EATTEXT.

[Anonymous]

Thank you! I am trying this now.

I'm trying to import the .csv file, but all the categories are screwy. Not
sure what's going on.

[sboon]

What do you mean by categories?  If your csv file has point descriptions then you should be able to create cogo points with appropriate symbols and labels using a Description Key set.

Steve
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[MMcCall402]

When you get to page 5 of 8 in the data extraction you can change the order of the columns by dragging the headers left and right to produce a csv with the information in the expected order.

Or, you can open the csv you have in excel and reorder it there.

Or, make a custom format during the import process to match the csv you have.