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Miscellaneous Commands

Various utility commands available in R3Survey.

R3COPYPOLYLINESEGMENT — Copy a single polyline segment

Command: R3COPYPOLYLINESEGMENT

Copies a single segment (line or arc) from an existing polyline as a new standalone entity. Useful when you need to extract one boundary leg for use elsewhere without exploding the whole polyline.

Usage

  1. Type R3COPYPOLYLINESEGMENT
  2. Click on the polyline segment you want to copy (click near the segment, not a vertex)
  3. Specify a base point
  4. Drag and click to place the copied segment — repeat to place multiple copies
  5. Press Esc to finish

R3REMOVEDUPVERTS — Remove duplicate vertices

Command: R3REMOVEDUPVERTS

Removes coincident (duplicate) vertices from a 2D polyline — vertices where consecutive points occupy the same location, creating a zero-length segment. These can cause issues with area calculations, offsets, and export.

Usage

  1. Type R3REMOVEDUPVERTS
  2. Select the polyline to check
  3. R3Survey reports how many coincident vertices were found
  4. Confirm Yes to remove them, or No to leave the polyline unchanged

R3REV — Reverse line direction

Command: R3REV

Reverses the start/end direction of a selected line entity. Useful when a line was drawn in the wrong direction and needs to match bearing conventions.

R3LAY — Insert layout from title block

Command: R3LAY

Creates a paper space layout from a title block block reference in model space. The selected title block determines the sheet size and paper space viewport configuration. Drawing scale is read from R3DWGSCALE.

R3TITLEBLOCKPOPULATE — Populate title block

Command: R3TITLEBLOCKPOPULATE

Fills in standard attribute fields in a title block block reference (plan number, date, surveyor, etc.).

R3TRANSFORMSURVEY — Align survey using MARK points

Command: R3TRANSFORMSURVEY (Civil 3D only)

Transforms (translates and rotates, no scale) the drawing to align with known control points. Reads two or more CogoPoints coded MARK and uses them to compute the required transformation. Useful for registering a survey to control.

R3XREF — XRef management

Command: R3XREF (MLS internal)

Internal XRef management tool.

TRACEATTRIBUTES — Trace UDP attributes

Command: TRACEATTRIBUTES (Civil 3D — MLS internal)

Diagnostic tool for tracing and displaying User Defined Property (UDP) attribute values on selected CogoPoints.

Command: R3SITESEARCH (MLS internal)

Internal spatial search tool.