Exercise 2: Editing a Figure

In this exercise, you will edit a figure to change its display in the drawing.

This exercise continues from Exercise 1: Viewing Survey Data.

Edit a figure

Note:

This exercise uses Survey-3.dwg with the modifications you made in the previous exercise.

1. In Toolspace, on the Survey tab, expand the database Survey 1 to display the Figures collection.
   Note:

   If a is displayed beside the Figures collection, click the collection to refresh it and then click to view all the figures.

2. Right-click the Figures collection. Click Edit Figures.
3. In the Figures Editor vista, in the BLDG1 row, for Style, select Building.

   The entire row is displayed as bold. The bold row indicates that a change has been made to the figure data but it has not been saved to the survey database.

4. Click to save the change to the survey database.
5. Click to close the Figures Editor vista.
6. On the ToolspaceSurvey tab, in the list view, right-click the BLDG1 figure. Click Remove From Drawing. Click Yes.

   The figure is deleted from the drawing.

7. Right-click BLDG1 again and click Insert Into Drawing.

   The BLDG1 figure is displayed with the new style.

To continue to the next tutorial, go to Analyzing and Reducing Survey Data.