Drawing Recovery Series - Missing Point Elevations

This series of articles will go over several examples of drawing recovery methods, depending on the scenario your drawing files are currently in:

MSJ database folder 

DWG with 0 KB 

Autosave Recovery

Saved with Errors

• Missing Point Elevations

Missing Point Elevations

In this scenario, you are able to open your drawing, most likely after a crash recovery wizard took place, but noticed that your point elevations are missing from the database. Furthermore, the point nodes themselves are at 0 elevation/Z value, but you still have the correct elevation label displayed.

This is caused by opening a drawing that had the 2D Point Node setting enabled, but either did not have a database file (.MSZ) or had issues reading it. So in order to correct this, we will need to perform a few steps in the correct order:

1. Open the drawing as normal
2. Go under MsTools > System Toggles > CAD Drawing Controls and ensure that 2D point nodes is disabled
   

3. Go under MsPoints > Audit Database (or run the command MS_AUDIT

This will compare your database with the entities in the drawing, and attempt to fix any errors. In this case, it will use the node elevation value to adjust your point database back to what it should be.