POINT STYLES
When I create a drawing from your dwt file, and import the point file you provided I get the symbol that is prescribed in the description key file in the location of the cleanout. I use that symbol for a well but to each his own.
Rick Jackson
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The dwt you uploaded in Post #1 is messy. smh
With a little work, you can get by.
If you really and truly want to do this right create a Block Library for your blocks. Don't CREATE your blocks directly in your dwt, make a separate 'Block Library' then, cut the blocks you plan to use and paste them into your working drawing. You can make a custom block library for a single project or you can make a Master Block Library and add you favorite block as you create or acquire them.
First and foremost, open the JASON GODWWIN.dwt and delete all the cogos using the Cleanout Style. It doesn't matter if the cogo has the correct symbol or incorrect symbol, just delete all cogos using that style. Next, PURGE the block that's named DOUBLE CIRCLE PLUS INSIDE using the purge command. (You want to delete it because that's the wrong block!)
Warning: If there are any cogos still using the Cleanout 'STYLE' you won't be able to delete DOUBLE CIRCLE PLUS INSIDE.
With the Jason Godwin template still open, add the correct block from Post #1. (As you already know, the correct block looks like a thick 'plus' sign inside a double circle. The correct block is in the CLEANOUT.dwg)
Finally, while still in Jason Godwin.dwt, edit the Cleanout cogo Point Style by inserting the correct Cleanout Symbol.
Chicagolooper
This is the E-A-S-Y way.
Open 24600 WATSON ROAD.dwg then go to Toolspace=>Setteings Tab=> perform sequence shown below:
Chicagolooper
If you want to fix your template, the one named JASON GODWIN.dwt, then you'll need to REdefine your CO block. Be sure to redefine while you're in the Jason Godwin template.
You must re-define it because that block definition is currently pointing to the WELL block instead of pointing to the CO (cleanout) block. That means every time you call up the block named CO AutoCAD will follow your pointer and insert the WELL block.
<<Bad pointer means you get a bad block........And bad block means you get a bad point style.>>
It might look like AutoCAD made a mistake when creating the cogo point but he didn't. Why? Because he's inserting the block according to your instructions. It's not the Point Style that's incorrect, it's the block used in the point style.
Make the CO point to the CO block, not the WELL block.
Chicagolooper
Hi @ESchomberg
The water valve block is the BAD symbol.
The double circle with the 'plus' sign is the GOOD symbol.
The solution is to replace the Bad symbol with the Good one.
Here's a video using your Cleanout symbol and your dwt demonstrating how you can do it.
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In the future, when building a Point Style, copy the desired block from your drawing named All Symbols.dwg and paste it directly into the dwg file where you create the Point Style. You may even delete the block after it's pasted. Why? Because the process of pasting a block establishes that block's definition and deleting it only removes the block symbol itself, it doesn't remove the block definition.
Once the definition is properly defined, it'll be available for use when building a Point Style. On a side note, you can use PURGE to remove a block definition but you must comply with the PURGE rules when doing so. (Actually it's more like 'satisfy certain conditions' rather than rule compliance when you want to purge a block definition.)
Chicagolooper
