Importing Points in Land Desktop 2004

Importing points in land desktop 2004

After you create new project and drawing, follow these steps to import the points.

The points can have different formats like penzd (space delimited) which in *.txt format looks like:

“Space delimited” means the p,e,n,z and d columns are separated by space between them. If you choose “comma delimited” then your data must be separated by commas. To paste these coordinates in txt format you have to create these in excel and simply copy and paste the cells in notepad.  How to create these penzd points have already been discussed in the first part. Click here to view.

Click here to get the sample points.

1. Go to [Points > Import/Export points > import points]

2. In Format, enter the format of your data. For this example, dropdown the list and select PENZD (space delimited). In Source File, browse the location where you have saved the text file. Then check the Add Points to Point Group to add the points to a point group. Here you are asking land desktop to save the points in the group so that each time you want to work with the data, you don’t look for the original data but from the group defined. Enter a group name and click ok. Click ok again to exit the Format Manager.

3. In COGO Database Import Options, simply leave all fields as default and click OK.

4. Then you’ll see the following screen.

5. Enter Z  and E  i.e zoom extent the drawing to see the imported points.

6. The size of points will look relatively too huge. To solve this goto:

[Points menu > Edit points > Display properties]

7. Look at the command line:

Type A  to modify all the points.

8. Change the Color and Visibility to play with the appearance of the points. Next change the Text Size from default 5 to 1 units. Remember that the default unit is meter in Land desktop unlike mm in autocad, so 1 unit text size means 1 meters height. Next go to Marker tab and change the size to 1 units or any suitable height too.

Once done hit Ok and see the magic. Don’t forget to play with other options in the dialog boxes that I haven’t discussed here.

Finally, you should see your imported points like this.

By default, the yellow color is for serial number, red is for R.L of the point, and green is for description of the point. You can change the color or make the items invisible from the dialog box in step 8 above. Search the blog for more informations like creating contours, editing points and many more.
Do comment any queries.