Survey Points-Changing the Size, Style, and Color

If you prefer not to have the existing Point Styles and Point Labels to display the same size and color as the proposed improvements on a site plan, please follow the steps below. You can keep everything gray and readable, but in the background where it belongs. This is a pretty quick way to get around the default settings in the template if you find that your survey points are taking over your site plan.

Below is what the template default is for Point label style and Point labels. (Point label style is Num Elev Desc and Point label is +)

Right click any survey point (you can do this in Paperspace or Modelspace) and choose Point Group Properties.

Make sure you select the correct style that you want to edit (in this example Num Elev Desc will be edited)

The dialog box gives you the option to change the Label and/or the Point Style. To change the POINT LABEL STYLE, Under the “Point label style“, make sure you select the correct STYLE and go to the drop down and select “Edit Current Selection.”.

Under the LAYOUT tab, Expand the TEXT heading, enter preferred Text Height and hit OK. This will bring you back to the main dialog box.
(The default is .1250 in text height, I would recommend not to go any smaller than 0.08 in size)

If you have more than one Component in the Label Style, you must select from the drop down which Component you want to change. If you want to change all of them to the same size, you must select and change each one separately.

To change the POINT STYLE, under the “Point style” label, go to the drop down and select the type of Point Style you wish to use. (In this example “CROSS” was selected.

To change the COLOR of the Point Labels and Point Label Type, Open up Layers Manager. Under the layer “SURV-POINTS” change the color to what you want, in this example Color 8 was used.