Civil 3D – Transparent Point Number Warning

Transparent commands are a nice feature with Civil 3D, and have eliminated some of my custom programming.  No sadness there, because the features are so well integrated.  I just wish I was responsible for them.

With that said, there are a few things that I’d like to see altered, like the Point Number query.  Recently I was filling in for some missing people, and I was doing some connect the dots from field notes.  I kept running into geometry that wouldn’t play together.  I checked my point style, and everything was flattened.

Here’s the catch.  When you query the point number by transparent command, you get 3D values, not the value from the Point Style.

Here are some excerpts:

A simple line command…

Note the elevations…

 

 

Here is the result..

Verify the point style 3D Geometry, and make sure it was overridden…

Redraw the line, using simple node snaps…

And here is what I expected.

The moral to this story is be very aware of what you are getting through the Transparent Commands.  Don’t get me wrong, I love ‘em, but I know what to expect now. 

Hey Autodesk, what about keeping the ‘PN transparent command parallel with the prevailing Point Style?