Treehugger Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 I have collected point data for the positions of trees using PocketGIS software. The software produces a csv. file with the Northings and eastings of each point surveyed to which are attached a number of other attrinutes (e.g. tree tag number, height, species etc.). Is it possible to import and plot these points directly into AutoCAD? Can some or all of the attributes be included (i.e. it would be very usefull if the positions could be plotted together with the tag number)? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Civil3DReminders Posted July 5, 2010 Share Posted July 5, 2010 Check out the DBConnect command. I think there are other methods to accomplish what you want to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treehugger Posted July 6, 2010 Author Share Posted July 6, 2010 I have had a perusal of the help filewith regards DBConnect Comand but I am not sure where I should start. Any further help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlorge Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 What form of AutoCAD are you using? Regular CAD or Civil3D? I know that if you are using Civil3D you can select your Points pull down menu and then select Import/Export and from there you can import the .csv file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuccaro Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 Can you post the first line of the csv file explaining the meaning of each data? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haseebsarwar42 Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 yes this is possible first import or open this file in eagle point from there you cad import it to autocad. cad you give me this file. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treehugger Posted July 7, 2010 Author Share Posted July 7, 2010 fuccaro The data would be similar to that shown below, where Easting =X , Northing =Y, Tag No= Tree identifier, Common name=species, Category = A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3, C1, C2, C3 or R. In the first instance it would be a csv. file but could easily be an Excel worksheet. Easting Northing Tag_No Common_Name Height Category 4703358 5067845 1 sycamore 17 A1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treehugger Posted July 7, 2010 Author Share Posted July 7, 2010 Hmmm. It seems you cannot include a table in this forum. Or perhaps its just beyond me! Anyway hopefully you will get my drift. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkmcswain Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 I have collected point data for the positions of trees using PocketGIS software. The software produces a csv. file with the Northings and eastings of each point surveyed to which are attached a number of other attrinutes (e.g. tree tag number, height, species etc.).Is it possible to import and plot these points directly into AutoCAD? Can some or all of the attributes be included (i.e. it would be very usefull if the positions could be plotted together with the tag number)? Thanks Using vanilla AutoCAD, and without further programming, something like this should help: http://www.caddzone.com/ascpoint.lsp If you have Land Desktop, Civil 3D, or add-ons like Carlson or Dotsoft Mapworks, then you already have the tools to do what you wish... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sao Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 Is this possible in AutoCAd 2010LT the DBConnect command does not seem to work? I am also trying to import eastings and northings from an Excel file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkmcswain Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 Is this possible in AutoCAd 2010LT the DBConnect command does not seem to work?It wasn't part of LT 2009, and I don't think it has been added. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chulse Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 I have collected point data for the positions of trees using PocketGIS software. The software produces a csv. file with the Northings and eastings of each point surveyed to which are attached a number of other attrinutes (e.g. tree tag number, height, species etc.).Is it possible to import and plot these points directly into AutoCAD? Can some or all of the attributes be included (i.e. it would be very usefull if the positions could be plotted together with the tag number)? Thanks Have a look at Lee's Point Manager: http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=42954&highlight=import+block+csv :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEXTMARCUS Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Hi! Try this this post: http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?72677-Import-coordinates-from-a-text-file-txt-(sdr-csv)-in-AutoCAD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGAL Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Sao not tried with LT but should work you can paste a series of commands to autocad just like you typed them, using excel and the concatenate to join columns you can end up with a column that you cut and paste to the command line. this has been posted here so mnay times now I am losing count. Here is a screen shot just copy the F column to the command line. be careful of the "," this is needed to put a comma in the x,y as well as a space " " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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