Standard point properties include items such as number, easting, northing, elevation, name, description, and the other entries you see when examining points in Prospector or Panorama.Now, what if you’d like to assign extra information to a point object and the field data for that information is not among the standard fields that ship with the software? Civil 3D is versatile in this situation since it provides the means to add custom fields to suit your needs.
It’s common to receive points from a soil scientist that list additional information, such as groundwater elevation or subsurface elevation. Surveyed manhole points often include invert elevations or flow data. Tree points may also contain information about species or caliber measurements. All this additional information can be added as user-defined properties to your point objects. By using user-defined properties, you will be able to parse the nonstandard information and attach it to the point data during the import process. You can then use user-defined properties in point labeling, analysis, point tables, and more.