Besides all of the ideas from https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/civil-3d-ideas/survey-database-improvements/idi-p/5945924 that still haven't been implemented in a decade, it'd be nice to have the ability to use point codes to join figures.
Many times a survey comes in where different setups are used and they didn't continue figures between the setups, so there are gaps between the setups. Currently, the RPN# EL method has to be used to extend one figure to the next one, but they aren't joined. That has to manually be done. Since Autodesk hasn't worked on anything to simplify this work, it's a long process.
- Select a figure and open the figure properties (which automatically zooms to figure extents)
- Select the zoom button since Autodesk won't allow the user to have the survey figure properties dialog open and pan/zoom at the same time
- Zoom/pan to your location.
- Hit ESC or Enter
- Select the join button
- Select the figure to be joined
- Hit apply (so long as the joined figure is the same direction).
- If figure direction isn't the same, then close dialog.
- Select 2nd figure and goto figure properties.
- Select reverse.
- Click OK.
- Repeat steps 1-7
This process has to be done after any processing of the linework because it's a manual edit to the figure. If you join figures then continue to process linework in another area you've lost all of the work you did previously.
It would be great to have a special processing code to join a figure to another one. Maybe something like EP1 JOIN EP2 to join a figure named EP1 to another figure named EP2. This code would be used at the end of a figure similar to the end figure code. It would connect a line between the end of the EP1 figure to EP2 like the CPN# code does, but end up joining the figures as well to the first figure that started the join. The directions would need to automatically be corrected to match the direction of the first figure that started the join.
