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Importing Points from a Text File
One of the most common means of creating points in your drawing is to import an external text file (see Figure 1 ). The Import Points tool c...
Default Name Format and Point Identity
The Default Name Format section is where you can define the macros that manage the naming of the point groups and point names when these are...
Weeding Factors
Turning on Weeding Factors in the Add Breaklines dialog allows you to omit extraneous data from your surface. You will want to consider wee...
Custom Point File Formats and Advanced Options
If the file format you need is not available or you want to use the adjustment and transformation capabilities, you can do so by clicking th...
User-Defined Properties
Standard point properties include items such as number, easting, northing, elevation, name, description, and the other entries you see when ...
Using Breaklines to Improve Surface Accuracy
The TIN algorithm creates surfaces by drawing 3D lines between points that are closest to each other. In certain instances, this is not the ...
Prospector Tab
Prospector allows you to explore your drawing file for Civil 3D objects, which makes assessing object data contained in a drawing a lot easi...
Creating a Surface from Survey Data
You create a surface in Prospector by simply right-clicking the Surfaces node of the tree and selecting Create Surface , as shown in Figure ...
Renumbering Tag Labels
As Murphy’s law would have it, the numbers you get when creating tag labels are almost never what you want them to be. This is no fault of ...
