SPEDITPROPS

Open a design spreadsheet to edit many spot elevation properties. Here are some hidden useful gestures for you while working with Edit Properties spreadsheet: + Right click to show the pop up menu. Click "Copy All to Clipboard" to have current worksheet data on clipboard. Then, you can paste them elsewhere, for example, Excel. + Right click to show the pop up menu. Click "Paste Data from Clipboard" to insert clipboard data as new spot elevations. Data must have same format as the one you get when copying to clipboard. Otherwise, the application will reject + Right click on color cell to open Autodesk® AutoCAD® Select Color dialog box. This equal to F2 key. + Select multiple cells in a column, then pressing Ctrl+D will copy the top cell's value to others. + Select multiple cells in a column, type new value, then pressing Enter key will populate new value to all selected cells. + To delete Spot Elevations, selected entire rows and click Delete key. + Ctrl+Z to undo

SPCONVERT

Convert lines and texts on "Topo" layers to spot elevation blocks. These lines and texts are manually drawn, or exported from other application. If 2 lines and 1 text form a shape look similar to spot elevation. They will be converted. Requirement are: + 2 lines are approximately equal length and crossing each other at midpoint and right angle + text has numeric value, and text size should approximately equal to half the line's length + text's position is not too far away from 2 lines New inserted spot elevation's scale, layer and color will match the source objects.

SPSETTINGS

+ Change layer name filer pattern of SPCONVERT command. + Enable or disable locking Spot Elevation's rotation.

SPINSERT

Insert new spot elevation block. + Type "D" to open dialog with more setting options: change default unit, show/hide unit, change number, change display precision. + When enter elevation, you can also enter an additional text label which will be inserted on top of spot elevation. + You can specify unit directly by enter: 12', 158", 12' 25", or 125 mm. If no unit detected, default unit will be used.