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Points Import for AutoCAD - A Point Text file Import plug-in for AutoCAD

Points Import for AutoCAD is a Point Text file import plug-in for AutoCAD®. This plug-in gives AutoCAD the ability to import point data from text files.

Point data is commonly stored in plain text file as a series of x, y and z coordinates, separated by a comma, space, tab, semicolon or a custom separator. These text files may also contain other information about the points such as point number and point descriptions. Moreover, points from a survey may be stored in the Northing, Easting, Elevation format. Points Import for AutoCAD extracts the point information from text files and creates point entities in the active drawing. Optionally it can also create text entities for point numbers, point descriptions and point coordinates. The points can also be joined by a chain of lines, a polyline or a spline. This is helpful when the points in the point file are stored in a particular order such as a path of motion of an object, points on the boundary of an object or hole in an object, etc.

Points Import for AutoCAD supports the following point file formats:

X, Y, Z
Number, X, Y, Z
X, Y, Z, Description
Number, X, Y, Z, Description
Northing, Easting, Elevation
Number, Northing, Easting, Elevation
Northing, Easting, Elevation, Description
Number, Northing, Easting, Elevation, Description

Points Import for AutoCAD comes with detailed documentation as well as a tutorial to get you started in the shortest possible time.

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The Point File Format

A Point file format is basically a text file containing the x, y and z coordinates of a point on each line. Usually the coordinates are stored in the XYZ order. However, points are sometimes stored in the YXZ order. This is common in survey data where the YXZ order is referred to Northing, Easting and Elevation. Sometimes each point in the point file has a point number and/or description. An example of a point file with points stored in the XYZ order and has point numbers and descriptions.

1,5.678232,3.282384,6.112837,First Point
2,7.802343,6.792039,2.489561,Second Point
3,2.454512,7.453219,3.454865,Third Point
... and so on

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