Points, point styles and label styles

[AstroNout]

Hi guys,

I've got a set of suvey points, among a couple of height points. These are displayed by block-pointstyles in combination with a height label in another layer. De client wishes to get them into seperate layers. Is there a way to explode the points into blocks and text, so they stay into these pre-defined layers?

Example:
A storm drain is in a block DRAIN, on the layer DRA and the label is in a label on layer THT. So the points are drawn in layer DRA. Exploding the whole shabang finally should get the block DRAIN and a label in THT.

Thanks,
AstroNout

[designerstuart]

i don't see why if it's already drawn on the right layers, exploding will upset that?
do you know command BURST?
it's like EXPLODE but leaves all entities as visible before the block was destroyed.

[AstroNout]

allrighty, that's what i needed!

Thanks!

[MSasu]

One extra comment - the BURST command is part of Express pack, not a built-in one. So, the availability of this pack along your AutoCAD is mandatory.

[AstroNout]

Since it's for use within the University, that won't be a problem!

Cheers!

[AstroNout]

However... Now I got another problem. I should insert a block and and point on the place of a survey point. Is that possible? And if so, when you explode the survey to get rid of the figures, the point should stay to be a point, and the other one a block.

Yeah I know, stupid, put if that's what the Belgian government wants, we shall provide

[designerstuart]

not quite sure what you mean..... are you trying to add a POINT at every block's insertion point?

[AstroNout]

Some features like the side of the road, height points,... are specifically measured with a height. These points, being nodes of lines or the insertionpoints blocks, should be marked with a point.

I'm guessing the easiest way is to write a script for it?

[designerstuart]

at all of these survey points you want to automatically insert the same block?

[SLW210]

I moved this thread to the Map 3D forum.