topic Re: Importing Points in AutoCAD Forum

Importing Points

nara7ZXKX — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 19:19:03 GMT

Hello all,

I will preface this saying I am VERY rusty with AutoCAD, but it is the program I’m still most familiar with and the company I work for has a license for the architectural version “with specialized toolsets”.

I have been working on creating site plans using a Moasure device. It has a very snazzy app that can show many view perspectives, but I’m having trouble with the DXF exports. Barely any of them will open. DWGs seem to be ok and I’m then editing the line work.

My problem is that all “points” are a composite of 4 separate lines when opening a new DWG exported from Moasure. It is difficult to find the grip when there are multiples points collected.

This example is one point labelled as tap in the app. So, there are actually 8 lines making up what I want to be a singular node, the topmost blue grip shown here.

The CSV files exported from the Moasure are all a bit cumbersome. There is no unique point number for each piece of the data. Each new layer created in the app starts back at 1.

I tried to follow the advice given here:

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-import-survey-data-from-excel-into-AutoCAD.html?us_oa=forums-us&us_si=f9112641-e475-4f12-891c-b93f92d442cf&us_st=import%20survey%20data%20points

And I just took the coordinates and swapped the x and y columns before copying into notepad. So that they would be Northing Comma Easting. But, when I got to the inserting script stage, I then hit this wall

Any suggestions? Once I get the points in nicely, I want to create contours based off the elevations collected.

Thanks!!!

Re: Importing Points

pendean — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 19:37:45 GMT

Those are two commands:
MULTIPLE https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-60331A1C-1CD0-4626-BC56-F33D0A3683E9#:~:text=SHARE-,MULTIPLE%20(Command),-Repeats%20the%20next
POINT https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-3F5861A1-9A63-42A6-8F12-3395771BAA6D#:~:text=SHARE-,POINT%20(Command),-Creates%20a%20point

In a SCRIPT file, there is a single space that acts as <enter> between the two words

If you did a copy/paste from that page into the command line you'd see it too

Re: Importing Points

nara7ZXKX — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 21:36:25 GMT

Thank you so much @pendean for the prompt reply! I see the space now 🙄 It imported 😁

However, my points should be appearing as a wide rectangle rather than a tall one, so that's something I need to look into....

Re: Importing Points

Pointdump — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 10:03:49 GMT

Hi Nara,
"...my points should be appearing as a wide rectangle rather than a tall one..."
Probably because the X and Y are reversed.
Dave

Re: Importing Points

nara7ZXKX — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 20:42:14 GMT

Yes, of course. But I did change the angle to surveyor's units as indicated on that instruction page.

Happy to not make those extra steps to switch the columns!

Now trying to figure out CONCATENATE....