Exercise 5: Querying User-Defined Property Information

In this exercise, you will create a point group. The list of points included in the group is determined by a query that contains user-defined properties.

This exercise continues from Exercise 4: Importing Points with User-Defined Properties.

Create a point query

1. Open Points-4e.dwg, which is located in the tutorials drawings folder.
2. In Toolspace, on the Prospector tab, right-click Point Groups. Click New.
3. In the Point Group Properties dialog box, on the Information tab, for Name, enter Storm Manholes - Invert In.
4. On the Query Builder tab, select Modify Query.
5. Right-click the Query Builder table. Click Insert Row.
6. Click the row you created. Click Name in the Property column. In the Property list, select MH_Pipe In Invert.
7. Click the Operator value. In the Operator list, select < (less than).
8. Click the Value value. Enter 93.
9. Click OK.
10. On the Prospector tab, click Storm Manholes - Invert In.

    A list of points that match your query is displayed in the item view. Points number 307 and 667 are excluded, because in a previous exercise you set their values for MH_Pipe In Invert to 93.05 and 93.00.