Setting out points by hand is slow, and a missed interval is not obvious until somebody builds from it.

Survey staff need points along the kerb line. The contractor wants them at twenty-meter intervals down the centerline. The corridor needs point codes extracted for setting out. Each request is simple, and each one is an afternoon of picking, typing, and checking.

TA Auto Points generates points from the objects already in your drawing, across an entire selection, in one operation.

 

Five sources, each with the placement rules that suit it

• Polylines at a fixed interval or at the polyline's own geometry points.
• 3D polylines the same way, taking elevations straight from the geometry.
• Feature lines at a fixed interval, at geometry points, at PI and corner points, or at elevation points.
• Alignments at a fixed interval or at horizontal geometry points, with elevations draped onto the design profile.
• Corridors extracted by point code, either as a separate point group per corridor or all into one combined group.

 

Descriptions that mean something on site

Build each point's raw description from tokens instead of typing it. Along an alignment, use the alignment name, the station, the signed offset, the elevation, and a running number. From a polyline or feature line, use the source object's name or layer. From a corridor, use the point code and the corridor name, so a point reads ETW CORRIDOR-01 14 rather than a bare number. A live preview shows an example description as you build the template, so you see the format before you commit to a few thousand points.

 

Points off the centerline, in the same run

Along an alignment you can generate at signed offsets as well as on the centerline. Type them as a list, for example, -3.5, 0, and 3.5, and you get the kerb line, the centerline, and the far kerb in one pass rather than three. It is opt-in, so leaving it off behaves exactly as centerline-only.

 

Elevations that work beyond centrelines

The alignment generator prefers the finished-ground design profile and falls back to any non-surface profile when there is not one. That means offset and curb-return alignments are handled, not just centrelines, which is where most alignment-based point tools stop. When you need one specific profile, find it by keyword instead.

 

Output that lands inside your standards

Every run sets the target point group, point style, and label style, so the result needs no tidying afterwards. Point group names are made unique automatically, so a rerun never collides with an earlier one.

 

Built to run on a live drawing

• Progress is shown with a running point count and a working cancel. Cancelling is not destructive: the points created so far are kept and committed, and the dialog stays open so you can adjust and run again.
• One bad polyline, alignment, or corridor is skipped with the reason printed to the command line, and the rest of the selection still completes.
• An interval that would create more than 100,000 points on a single object is refused with a message rather than flooding the drawing.
• Selection lists support selecting all, deselecting all, and picking directly from the drawing.

 

Who it is for. Survey and setting-out teams producing point data for the field, Civil 3D designers who need COGO points off geometry they have already drawn, and anyone handing coordinates to a contractor who expects them at a consistent interval with descriptions that read properly.

 

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