About Creating Points

You can use the Create Points dialog box to create points using a variety of methods.

For standardization, you can use a drawing template that contains point settings, point styles, and point label styles.

Important: The highest point number allowed in Civil 3D is 4,294,967,295. You can use point names or User Defined Properties to reference numbers greater than 4,294,967,295. For more information, see To Use Custom Properties with Points.

In the Create Points dialog box, choose commands from the following lists:

• Miscellaneous
• Intersection
• Alignments
• Surface
• Interpolate
• Slope
• Import Points

You can expand the Create Points dialog box to access the settings that are relevant to point creation. If you change the settings in this dialog box the changes are reflected in the CreatePoints command settings. For more information, see Edit Point Settings dialog box.

You can also use the Civil transparent commands in combination with the Create Points Manual command to create points using known information such as angle and distance.

You can use description key substitution while creating drawing points to automatically assign point style, point label style, layer, full description, and scale and rotation of the point symbol.

Import Points

Import point data from most ASCII (text) files or Microsoft® Access database (.mdb) files. For more information, see Importing Point Data.