Create COGO Points

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In this video, we're going to create COGO points using the points creation tool.

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We're also going to dropdown and describe the different point creation methods inside of the point creation tool.

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The point creation tool is contained in the home tab of the ribbon bar under Create Ground Data, the Points dropdown.

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The points creation tool contains all of the options below it in this dropdown,

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with the exception of northing/easting, bearing, azimuth, angle, deflection,

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as well as create points group, create COGO points from corridor, create blocks from COGO points and convert land desktop points.

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If I initiate the points creation tool, the "Create Points" dialog shows up.

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The create points dialog has seven options, six of which are dropdowns,

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these dropdowns correlate back to the methods that we can use inside of the Create Ground Data, Points dropdown.

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The first dropdown is the points creation miscellaneous methods.

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The second dropdown is the intersections methods.

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The third dropdown is the alignments methods.

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The fourth dropdown is the surface methods.

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The fifth dropdown is the interpolate methods.

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And the sixth dropdown is the slope methods.

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The seventh option is in import points from a file option.

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Inside of each of these dropdowns, the title for how to create that point is pretty self-explanatory.

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But if the title alone is not enough to describe to you how to create that point using that method, you can go back to your Points dropdown,

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and under the section, if you hover over that selection you want to use,

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it will give you a lengthier description of how to create that point or what that point creation method does.

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So, for example, if we want to know what the intersection method of direction/object was, then we could come over to intersections,

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hover over direction/object, and it would tell us that a direction/object command creates a point at the intersection of a direction,

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and a selected arc, line, polyline, lot line, feature line, or figure.

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We're going to go ahead and create some points using the manual method.

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So I'm going to go ahead and initiate the manual method,

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and in the command line, you'll see that it is telling me to specify a location for my new point.

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We're going to create four points, each correlating to a corner on this hypothetical parcel that we have here.

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So I'm going to snap on this corner and you'll see that the command line now tells me to enter a point description.

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I'm going to use the point description calc for all four of these points.

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And now it's prompting me to specify a point elevation.

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Because I'm only looking for a location of these possible corners, I'm not going to specify elevation, so I will leave it as a default of 0 feet.

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Now it's telling me to specify new location.

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I'm going to go faster now and I'm going to go through and create the remaining three points.

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This corner and now you can see that Civil 3D is prompting me to give another point description,

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but it retains my original point description for my last point that I created, which is CALC,

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so I can go ahead and just hit enter, and then I can hit enter again to set it as 0 feet.

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I can select the next corner and hit enter twice and it creates that next point.

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And I can select the fourth corner and hit enter twice, and I now have my fourth point.