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Upgrade Information About Points for Users of S8 Civil/Survey
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You can create leaders for the points by dragging the point grip
away from the point node, or you can turn off this option in the
Point Settings dialog box so that leaders aren’t created when you
move the markers (a new option in Release 2).
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The point database is now a Microsoft
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Access database that you
can sort and print from within Microsoft Access.
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You can now label points by using point labels. You can label the
number, name, description, and elevation, as well data from
external databases. For example, you can label a point with
different elevations obtained from borehole data.
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You can set up external references (or XDRefs) to external databases
for points by using the XDRef Manager, which allows you to
display extended point data, or use the point object as a database
display object for information other than the point data.
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You can create point groups, which makes it much easier to
manage large groups of points, by using the Point Group Manager.
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You can “override” point database values with either fixed
information or information from an external database when you
reference points in a point group.
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The Description Key Manager was developed for creating and
managing description keys. Description key definitions are now
stored in databases. You can have multiple description key files
per project.
For more information about changes to points for Release 2, see
“What’s New in AutoCAD Land Development Desktop Release 2” in
Chapter 1, “Introduction.”