Points objects represent existing or proposed points in Land Desktop. Their appearance in the drawing and their interaction with AutoCAD commands can be controlled by point settings.
Point objects have the following characteristics:
Points can appear at their actual elevation or at a fixed elevation.
Points are saved to an external database.
Points have markers and text; both have styles that can be modified. Points can also be labeled using a label style.
Markers and text can have either relative or absolute sizes controlling their appearance in the drawing.
Point text can be separated from its associated point marker by grip editing, with a leader automatically generated to graphically link the marker and text.
Point descriptions can be either raw (point database) or full (as specified by the description key).
Point text appears on the same layer as the point marker, but the visibility of the text is controlled by individual settings.
Point coordinate display in dialog boxes can be specified as Northing/Easting, Easting/Northing, x,y, or y,x.
The AutoCAD UNDO command works with point objects.
Point objects align with the World UCS.
To work through this lesson follow these steps
Start AutoCAD Land Desktop if you have not already done so.
On the File menu, click Open to display the Open Drawing: Project Based dialog box.
The default location folder for project files is c:\Land Projects <Version Number>. If you opted to install these files in another location instead, specify the appropriate project path.
From the Project Name list, select TUTORIAL2, from the Select Project Drawing list, select Lesson-3.dwg, and then click OK.
On the Projects menu, click Workspaces. In the list, select Land Desktop to display the Land Desktop menus.
Working through these lessons will result in alteration of the project files. Backup copies of these project files can be found in the c:\Program Files\AutoCAD Land Desktop <Version Number>\Landtut folder.
If this lesson has been previously run, copy these unaltered project files to the \Land Projects <Version Number> folder when starting a new tutorial session to ensure that the sequence outlined in each lesson can be followed properly.