import xyz coords

Hi everyone, hope someone can help me, I got a lisp routine from the internet ( Jeffery P Sanders) for the importation of x,y,z coords from an Excel spreadsheet and the importing of x,y,z displays in a dialogue box. It asks you to choose whether to display the coords as a node, circle, draw a line etc. Once confirmed the points are plotted in autocad as an x and y point. However I wish to plot the x and y value and display the z level value next to the point but I am unable to do this. I believe it has something to do with attributing box but I am unsure. I wonder if someone could please help me in lay man's terms, simple reason is I do simple topographical surveys and if there is lots of points, I have to type the text values by hand next to each point. I also wonder if there is another or better lisp routine that will make it easier to import, plot and display levels.

Many thanks,

Bill.

Did you try contacting Jeffery P. Sanders?

CIV3d display point values any way you like. Plus obviously much much more.

Also pretty sure there is a insert block routine that displays co-ords from xyz do a bit of seraching.

One of the functions of the lisp ImportXYZ is to Insert a block and update the x y and/or z attributes on every point.

A block is provided, and you probably need to alter the visibilty of the attributes, and make the x,y invisible, and to make the z attribute visible. I have not tried this, but it should be theoretically possible.

I know that Civil3D displays every imaginable wrinkle that you could ever want, but to an impecunious (self employed?) surveyor trying to earn a crust, it is a compete non-starter. That is why I had to write an import routine, before the web information was generally available, and nothing that I have seen since does what my routine does. So to get exactly what you want, write your own.