The Group Manager
The Group Manager is a Windows Explorer-like dialog that allows you quickly re-organize points within a job file. Points can be rearrange in an intuitive way by using drag and drop to move points from one group to another. Group Manager also provides the ability to rename points or groups, create new groups and remove those that are no longer necessary.
To Call Up The Group Manager: from the Point Editing section of the Home tab select Edit>Group Manager...
On the left side of the group manager is a list of all groups in your job, organized by collection much like a filtered list of the SA Treebar. Right-click to access a list of commands that can be performed and a list of shortcut keys that can be used to access them.
On the right is a list of the points in the selected group, as well as their coordinates. Points can be selected both one at a time and by using the standard windows Ctr+Click to select additional points in any order and Shift+Click to select a series of points between two click points. One selected these points can be drag-dropped into any point group to re-organize the locations of the points.
In addition to simple re-organization there are both copy and delete options that can be used as needed.
To Sort Points by Name or Coordinate Value: In the Group Manager, click a column header to sort by that value. Click again to sort in the reverse direction.
To Find Points:
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Right-click a point or selection (select points to search amongst first, if desired) and select Find... from the context menu.
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Type a search string, and choose either the Selection option to search the selection, or the Group option to search the entire group.
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Click the OK button. The list of points will be filtered to show only the matching points. (Click the group name to reset the list).
To Perform Search and Replace in Point Names:
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Select points (if desired), then right click the selection and choose Replace... from the context menu.
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In the Replace dialog, enter text to search for, and the text to replace it with. Choose Selection, Group, or All to indicate whether you want to search among the selection, entire group, or all points.
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Click the OK button. All matching text substrings are replaced.