MNMACHINIST Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 If i had a list of points generated by a cmm in the form of a notepad document, how could I Import them into AutoCad? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeScott Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 How are they set up? If they're comma delineated, you could write a scriptfile that starts the point command, or pline, and then dumps the values in there afterwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MNMACHINIST Posted March 17, 2010 Author Share Posted March 17, 2010 I'm not sure how they will be set up, i'm not very good at this, so if you could give me more of a step by step i'd appreciate it. i know the basics as far as drawing in autocad, but beyond that i'm lost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpseifert Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 Search the Lisp forum for Lee Mac's "Point Manager" routine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuccaro Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 If the text is formatted as x,y or x,y,z you can copy/paste the text in the command line Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Tillman Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 There are several free lisp routines to do this. Check out this one for starters: http://www.jefferypsanders.com/autolisp_IMPORTXYZ.html There are some really cool people who hang out here in the forums too who can help you write a custom lisp program for more exact needs. But if your file is in x,y or x,y,z format delimited with commas then the above IMPORTXYZ will work beautifully. We had a project in 2008 which created a file with a couple of thousand points. The client was pissed when they thought they would have to input all the points by hand or pay for software to import them. But I found lots of free stuff which took only seconds to create a drawing full of points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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