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Managing points with point groups

Managing points with point groups - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Managing points with point groups

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- [Instructor] We've looked at styles and really to manually manipulate each point and then each point label style on thousands of points, it's going to be cumbersome to say the least. So what if you could automate the process of setting the label style for the points and even the style for the coordinate or the marker as well? Thankfully Autodesk Civil 3D provides multiple ways to do just that, to automate that process. Most simplest way of automating point styles is to go through point groups and use point groups to manage it. Well let's go ahead and open up our exercise file for this video. I'm going to go to my quick access tool bar, choose open, and from chapter three, choose 03_02_PointGroups. In this drawing you'll see the two points that we added in our last video. No overrides to any of their point styles, or any of their styles whether it's point or label. In other words if I select this and choose properties from the contextual ribbon, you'll see both the styles for the…

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