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Chief Architect X10 Reference Manual

Select File

1 Select a file to import. • #XYZ - Information in this format begins
with a number that belongs to each data
• Click the Browse button to locate a file point followed by the X coordinate, the Y
on your computer. See “Importing Files” coordinate, and the Z coordinate.
on page 64. • #XYZ Description - Information in this
• If a file has been selected, its full path- format begins with a number that belongs
name displays here for reference; if a file to each data point followed by the X coor-
has not been selected, the directory of the dinate, the Y coordinate, the Z coordinate,
last file imported displays. If the path- and a description.
name is not that of a valid .txt file, this • YXZ - Information in this format begins
text will display in red. with the Y coordinate followed by the X
coordinate and the Z coordinate.
2 Select the organization of the data.
• #YXZ - Information in this format begins
with a number that belongs to each data
Elevation information can be organized in point followed by the Y coordinate, the X
one of six different ways, and can be coordinate, and the Z coordinate.
separated by either a comma (comma
delimited) or a space (space delimited). • #YXZ Description - Information in this
format begins with a number that belongs
• XYZ - Information in this format begins to each data point followed by the Y coor-
with the X coordinate, followed by the Y dinate, the X coordinate, the Z coordinate,
coordinate and the Z coordinate. and a description.

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