Moving points to associated elevation.
Chris,
I'm not quite following you. OK, so you use Text-to-Elevation to give your AutoCAD Points a Z. From there what do you need to do?
Dave
Dave Stoll
Las Vegas, Nevada
NVIDIA Quadro P5000 16GB
Windows 10 Pro 64 / Civil 3D 2027
OK. I'm guessing that the points are either a text "+" sign or block and a piece of text.
First and simplest method would be to request an ASCII point file from your Surveyors and import them a Cogo Points at elevation.
If all the text is offset from the point mark the same ammount. You can move the text insertions to the points in one Move command. To actually move whatever you have as a point mark in the drawing to the elevation. You would have to use a "Point Block" and add the elevations as attributes. Then you could use Convert Land Desktop Points to create Cogo Points at elevation.
If you can post a drawing with a couple of those points in it. That would help.
Allen Jessup
CAD Manager - Designer
Did you find this post helpful? Feel free to Like this post.
Did your question get successfully answered? Then click on the ACCEPT SOLUTION button.
I agree with @AllenJessup's comment that if you CAN get the original survey data it would be a HUGE time-saver. If not, then it should be a relatively straightforward thing to write up some LISP code to search for each block instance, find the nearest test string and perform a simple MOVE in the Z plane. If someone here can't do it then you might get a faster response and much better bandwidth posting this over in the AutoCAD Customization / LISP forum >>HERE<<
Warren Geissler
Drafting Manager Denver Water
_____________________________________________
Please ACCEPT AS SOLUTON if this works
(...and doesn't melt your computer or cause Armageddon)
Possibly a command that will move them according to their closest text object.
Request the full working 30-day evaluation of DotSoft's C3DTools and use it's Point > Convert Text tool (dialog below).
Tell it the text is Elevation (1) and the other is Node, then select all your geometry (possibly changing the max distance between them), the results are multiple AeccCogo Points. For the curious, what Elevation (2) is, it's when the elevation text is broken into two objects with the point between them acting as a decimal, like "123 + 45",
DotSoft: The Leading Developer
@Anonymous, It looks like your are getting some good help her. I'm sorry that I cannot add anything.
FYI - This is a minor issue regarding net etiquette:
Your attachment is a Word file containing two images.
You might want to consider a different format.
Word files can contain viruses and malicious macros. Most browsers open attached word files in protected mode or read only mode as a precaution. Even then, many people will not open Word files from unknown sources. (I am pretty trusting of anyone in these forums, so I opened it.)
Cheers,
Chris Stevens
Christopher Stevens
Did you find this post helpful? Feel free to Like this post.
Did your question get successfully answered? Then click on the ACCEPT SOLUTION button.