This article provides a detailed walk-through on editing and listing points, assigning marker styles, and label styles within a specific design context. It also illustrates the process of forcing a style and point label style onto a point, and discusses a more efficient method of making mass changes, which will be covered in the next article.
Key Insights
- The article details the process of selecting and modifying points, including assigning marker styles and label styles, using a contextual ribbon bar that pops up in the design interface.
- It highlights the ability to force a specific style and label style onto selected points, demonstrating the process through a series of examples.
- It concludes by acknowledging the inefficiency of the demonstrated method when dealing with a large number of points, and introduces the concept of description keysets for making mass changes more efficiently, which will be covered in the following article.
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In this video, we're going to talk about editing and listing points and assigning marker styles and label styles. So to do that, I'm going to go ahead and drop a window across some of my points without selecting the polylines.
And when I do that, a contextual ribbon bar pops up at the top of the screen. So up here in the ribbon bar, the COGO points contextual ribbon bar pops up because I have all of my COGO points selected inside this window. So inside of contextual ribbon bar in the second panel, you'll see there's a button for edit list points.
I'm going to go ahead and select that button and a panorama window will pop up with all of the points that I have selected in my window. So 103 through 117. Inside of here, we have all the data for these points.
So their number, their Easting, their Northing, their elevation, and their raw description and their full description. If they had names or the rest of these blank boxes, that data would fill in here too. Or we could also type in that data into these boxes.
So moving on from there, you'll see right here we have these columns for style and point label style. These are ways to force a style and a point label style onto a point. So what you can do is you can select a point and then you can select a style and you can pick a new style.
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So I'm going to go ahead and instead of having what they're currently set as, which is basic, I'm going to select standard for the point style. So I'm going to click OK. I'm going to move on to the next point.
I'm going to click OK and I'm going to move on to the next point and I'm going to click and click OK and I'm going to move on to the next point and click and click again and then click OK for standard. And so you can see this is a pretty slow process. I'm going to do the same thing for a point label style.
I'm going to click, click again and then choose description only and click OK. I'm going to click on the next point down, click again. I'm going to choose description only, click OK.
I'm going to click, click again, choose description only, click OK, click, click again and click OK. And so you can see where if I had a very long list of points that this could be a very inefficient way to force a style of a marker and a point label style onto certain points inside of a drawing. And that is where we come across description keysets.
And description keysets is what we're going to cover in the next video. So in this video, what you can see is the couple of points that we've selected. They have a new point marker style and a new label style.
And we'll move on to the next video where we're going to talk about description keysets and doing mass changes of marker styles and label styles.
