Inserting a symbol or character at defined stations along a chainage string

You could use the key-in for station offset. First, you need to make an active cell. Open up your cell library and choose an active cell for placement at the bottom of the dialog. Next, open your key-in and use ...

place cell icon so=[Station],[Offset]; selview 1

It should go without saying that this works for your active alignment. Remove the brackets and replace with your station and offset. You can make this a batch process if you have many to add. Let me know if you do not know how to do a batch process.

You could use the key-in for station offset. First, you need to make an active cell. Open up your cell library and choose an active cell for placement at the bottom of the dialog. Next, open your key-in and use ...

place cell icon so=[Station],[Offset]; selview 1

It should go without saying that this works for your active alignment. Remove the brackets and replace with your station and offset. You can make this a batch process if you have many to add. Let me know if you do not know how to do a batch process.

The best to manage this as an "input" like process is to create a text file with "station, offset, point name, point style" and import the text file as COGO points along the active alignment. I posted a video in the wiki to show how to do this.

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Many thanks for your response. Have you got a link to the video you refer to ?
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Many thanks for your response. Yeah, if you don't mind telling me how to do the batch process you refer to, that would be very useful. Many thanks and a happy New Year to you.

Batch processes basically open up a file or multiple files and execute the list of commands in the command file. You can create a command file that contains multiple place cell commands substituting your stations and offsets like this ...

place cell icon so=[Station],[Offset]; selview 1
place cell icon so=[Station],[Offset]; selview 1
place cell icon so=[Station],[Offset]; selview 1
place cell icon so=[Station],[Offset]; selview 1

You could quickly create this file using data that you have in excel with the concatenate command.

Open the batch process dialog Utilities>Batch Process. Click the icon with the plus symbol to add the files that you would like to process (these will be the file or files that you want to add the cells to. Next, select the command file which is just the text file that you added the place cell commands to. Now click the run button.

It is always a good idea to back up your file when you run a batch process as undoing your actions may be impossible. This method simply adds cells to your drawing with no intelligence behind them. Adding the points to cogo as jpln suggests will give you more options of working with the points intelligently.