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Importing Data

You can import data from an ASCII (text) file.

Data in an ASCII file must be in one of the following formats: tabular (such as x, y, z); or DXF. It can be a Macintosh file (which ends with a carriage return); a Windows or DOS file (which ends with a newline character); or a Unix file (which ends with a carriage return and newline, in that order) (a newline character is the same as a linefeed character).

Before you import into a document, ensure that the units for the document match those of the data which you are importing. If you are importing just to create a DTM and then export again, then this is probably not important.

See also Importing Tabular and Importing DXF.

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