These tutorials will get you started working with coordinate geometry (COGO) points, which are the basis for modeling land surfaces. These tutorials demonstrate how to import survey points into a drawing from a database, and how to classify a large set of points into more manageable groups.
Before you import a large set of points, it is a good idea to structure your drawing environment so that as the points are created, they are sorted into meaningful groups, with appropriate styles and other attributes.
All drawings used in these tutorials are available in the tutorials drawings folder . If you want to save your work from these tutorials, save the drawings to the My Tutorial Data folder so that you do not overwrite the original drawings.
For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic Understanding Points.
Topics in this section
- Tutorial: Creating Point Data
This tutorial demonstrates several useful setup tasks for organizing a large set of points.
- Tutorial: Displaying and Editing Points
This tutorial demonstrates how to use point groups, layers, external references, and styles to display points. It also explains the various ways to edit points using standard AutoCAD tools.
- Tutorial: Adding User-Defined Properties to Points
This tutorial demonstrates how to add custom properties to points.