basic coordinates text file

[dmingo]

Can anyone give me the basics on bring in an ascii text file with x, y and z values? I have attached a copy and I have a stack of them to process.

I changed it to a .txt extension, but I received them as .xyz

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Jmurphy]

If you reformat the txt file so the spaces bewtten the xy&Z are commas, IE: 1234.000,5678.9876,123.5 you can use the "Multilple" command followed by point and paste from notepad. The link explains it better.
http://map3d.wordpress.com/2006/06/2...m-a-text-file/

You can also insert the txt file into exell and create a ODBC connection then use the data connect. This works good if you want to have a point number or other info linked to the points.

[dmingo]

Thanks Murph,

I will work on that this afternoon.

Regards,
magoo

[dmingo]

Follow up:

That worked great. I was able to bring all of my point in.
I never would have thought of looking for "MULTIPLE".

Thanks again for your help,

Darrell

[Jmurphy]

Follow up:

That worked great. I was able to bring all of my point in.
I never would have thought of looking for "MULTIPLE".

Thanks again for your help,

Darrell

You're Welcome.

[ekubaskie]

Just a caution when you do this - turn running osnaps off, or your points may end up attached to existing linework, or even each other if node osnap is on.