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Managing points with point groups

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Managing points with point groups

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- [Instructor] We looked at styles and really to manually manipulate each point in point label style on thousands of points really it's going to be cumbersome to say the least. So, what if you could automate the process? Civil 3D provides multiple ways to do so. The simplest level of automating point styles is to go through point groups. Let's go ahead and open up our exercise file, and that would be our 03_02_PointGroups and we see here our two points that we added in our last exercise and so, what we're going to do is just take a look briefly at these points. I'm going to select one of them and we're going to choose Properties. So, notice again that the properties for the styles and point label style are set to default. What does default mean? Well, if we go to the Home, and open up our Toolspace, we'll see in our Prospector that there is a section called Point Groups and by default similar to layer zero, any time there's a point in the drawing there will be an all points point…

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