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Points Import for Bricscad - Point Text file import plug-in for Bricscad

Points Import for Bricscad is a Point Text file import plug-in for Bricscad®. This plug-in gives Bricscad 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 Bricscad 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 Bricscad 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 Bricscad is very easy to use. Once installed, it must be loaded into the Bricscad environment. There are simple instructions for this in the Getting Started document which can be found in the installation folder. Once loaded it adds new commands to Bricscad's existing commands and a new submenu called "PointsImport" to the Bricscad menu containing these newly added commands.

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

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