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Under Information, select Catch Basin in the Style property.
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For more information, see the AutoCAD Civil 3D Help topic Editing Points. Change the point style NOTE This exercise uses Points-3.dwg, which is similar to the drawing you used in the other exercises in the Displaying and Editing Points (page 30) tutorial. 1 Open Points-3.dwg, which is located in the tutorial drawings folder (page 819). 2 Locate point 992 near the right side of the drawing. Notice that the label for point 992 is obscured by the hatching. In the next few steps, you will change the point marker style. You will rotate the point marker so that it is parallel with the nearby road, and then move the label to a more readable location. 3 Select point 992. Right-click. Click Properties. The AutoCAD Properties palette displays the properties of individual points. 4 Under Information, select Catch Basin in the Style property. Rotate the point 1 In the drawing window, click the grip. The grip turns red. This is the point rotation grip, which rotates the point marker around the center point. TIP To rotate a group of points, use the AutoCAD ROTATE command. 2 Rotate the point clockwise until the point marker is parallel to the edge of the road, then click to position the point. The point marker now matches the angle of the road, but the label is still obscured by the hatching. You will correct this in the following steps. Drag the point label 1 Examine the grip that is offset from the center of the point. 2 This is the drag label grip. Click the grip above the drag label grip. This toggles the display of the drag label grip. Three grips are available. These grips can be used to drag each line in the point label independently. 3 Click the grip to return the drag label grip to its original state. 36 | Chapter 3 Points Tutorials