Save time and effort by considering certain issues before creating points.
The following factors can affect both the point creation process and the way you work with points after they are created:
- When creating drawing points, work in a drawing based on a template which contains the point settings, point styles, point label styles, and description keys you want to use when creating the point.
- Plan how you will control the point style and point label style used to draw points in a drawing. You can set the point styles at the point group level, or at the point level, and automatically assign this method of style selection during point creation.
- If you plan to use description keys to assign styles, layers, and other information when creating drawing points, make sure that the description keys are present in the drawing before you create the points.
- Specify settings that control, among other things, how you are prompted during the point creation commands and how the created points are numbered.
Note: If prompted for an elevation or description and you want to create a point without these, enter a period (.) at the prompt.