I am trying to find out a way of inserting points on the corners of my pile caps to allow me to then create a schedule. I know I can add the 'spot coordinate' tool in annotation. However, this will then begin to fill up my drawing with hundreds of Easting and Northing coordinates everywhere (which I don't want) and I also want to schedule them as well.
Can anyone let me know if there is a solution for this or if it is even possible?
What do you mean by "adding points" to the pilecap foundations?
Are you trying to make a generic family as a point and hosting it on each corner of the foundation cap to then retrieve the elevation of those points?
Are the elevations at each corner of a single pilecap foundation different therefore reporting 4 different elevations for a rectangular pilecap?
Some suggestions:
- You can use Autodesk Point Layout to place a point on each corner of the pilecap family and use it in a project. Then, use APL to extract the elevation and parametric values of the APL points for a schedule
- You can use Tag by Category to make a tag that displays the Top Elevation of the pile cap (assuming the pilecap is horizontally level).
Hope this helps.
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I'm confused as well. "Points"? And, how do these "Points" come into play in a Schedule? That sounds like their only purpose.
Thank you for your responses but myself and a colleague have figured out a solution now. We manipulated one of our own custom structural column family's to appear as just annotation which doesn't physically model anything in the 3D view or appear in any section/elevation. We removed most of the parameters and created our own to look like a spot coordination point (which can be adjusted in size to suit scales). I have attached a screenshot of a typical foundation with these "columns" attached to the corners which now read as a Setting Out Point (SOP), this then allowed us to give it a mark number and schedule them as well with coordinates.
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