Survey Point Manager is an AutoCAD plugin for importing, plotting, editing, and exporting survey coordinate points inside your drawing. It is designed for land surveyors, civil engineers, and CAD drafters who regularly move point data between field software, spreadsheets, GIS tools, and plan sheets.

What it does

Survey Point Manager gives you one workspace for coordinate work in AutoCAD. Load points from common survey and GIS files, place them in the drawing, review and adjust the list, draw coordinate tables, and export the results back to the formats your office or field crews use.

Who it is for

• Surveyors bringing total-station, GPS, or controller data into CAD
• Civil designers working with control points, layout lists, and as-built coordinates
• CAD technicians cleaning up, renumbering, or extracting points from existing drawings

Main workflows

Import

Select a file, set format options where needed, preview the parsed points, and import them into the drawing. Supported formats include:

• General: CSV, TXT, Excel (.xlsx)
• Survey equipment: Leica GSI (8- and 16-digit), Leica IDX, Sokkia SDR, Leica HeXML, Trimble JobXML (.jxl), Topcon PNT
• GIS and mapping: KML, KMZ, GPX, GeoJSON
• Civil: LandXML (.xml)

CSV, TXT, and Excel files can be mapped to point number, easting, northing, elevation, and description. The Universal ASCII wizard handles custom delimiters and header rows. Excel imports use a visual worksheet mapper to choose the sheet and assign columns.

Export

Send your current point list to the same format families, including Excel, for stakeout files, GIS handoff, or return-to-field software.

Create and capture points

• Pick — add points by selecting locations in the drawing
• Auto — number geometry selections from a base point and prefix
• Smart — extract coordinates and labels from blocks, text, or other objects in the drawing

Plot points and tables

Place points using your chosen symbol, layer, and label style. Generate AutoCAD coordinate tables with selectable columns, custom headers, and a maximum row count per table.

Edit and verify coordinates

• Zoom to a point selected in the list
• Repick a point on screen while keeping its number and description
• Renumber the list with a custom prefix and starting number
• Optional live sync updates the drawing and coordinate grid together when points are moved, edited, or deleted

Track your work

The History tab logs import, export, and edit operations so you can review what changed during a session.

Settings

Configure default point display (AutoCAD point, block, or label), layers, colors, and text size. Save import mapping presets for files you receive repeatedly from the same instrument or client.

Getting started

Type "SURVEYPOINTMANAGER" at the command line to open the panel. Use the Import, Export, History, and Settings tabs to complete your workflow. The panel can float or dock and works well on a second monitor.

Productivity and accuracy

Survey Point Manager reduces manual copying between files and drawings, lets you preview coordinates before placing points, and keeps one editable list aligned with what is on screen. That means fewer transposed values, faster sheet preparation, and less rework when point numbers or positions change during a job.