Activating a Description Key Set

Once you’ve created a description key set, you should verify the settings for your commands so that Civil 3D knows to match your newly created points with the appropriate key.

In Toolspace ➢ Settings tab, expand Point ➢ Commands and right-click CreatePoints. SelectEdit Command Settings, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1:  Right-click CreatePoints and choose Edit Command Settings.

In the Edit Command Settings – CreatePoints dialog, expand the Points Creation category and ensure that Match On Description Parameters is set to True and that Disable Description Keys is set to False, as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2:  Verify that Match On Description Parameter is set to True, and Disable Description Keys is set to False.

It is common to have multiple description key sets in your template. You can leverage description key sets for multiple clients or external survey firms that you work with. If you have multiple description key sets, they are all active, but if a set has a duplicate key, the first one Civil 3D runs across will take precedence. For example, if one set uses FL for fl owline but a second set uses FL for fence line, the second occurrence of the FL key gets ignored.

You can control the search order from the Toolspace ➢ Settings tab ➢ Points branch by rightclicking Description Keys Sets and selecting Properties.
Figure 3 shows the Description Key Sets Search Order dialog. Choose a description key set in the list and then use the arrows on the right side of the dialog to set the order. The set listed first takes first priority, then the second, and so on. Note that the listing in the Settings tab may not reflect the true listing in the properties.

Figure 3:  The Description Key Sets Search Order dialog.

Configuring Description Keys for Point Import

• Creating a Description Key Set
• Creating Description Keys
• Activating a Description Key Set