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Importing points


MNMACHINIST

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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.

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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

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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.

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