Points Import for Bricscad is a Point Text file import plug-in for Bricscad® powered applications. This plug-in gives Bricscad powered applications 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.
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. Follow the simple instructions in the ReadMe 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.

PointsImport - Imports a Point file
PointsImportHelp - Displays the Points Import for Bricscad help file
PointsImportRegister - Registers your copy of Points Import for Bricscad
PointsImportAbout - Displays the Points Import for Bricscad About box
The Point File Format
A Point file format is basically a text file containing the x, y and z coordinates of a point on each line. Usually the coordinates are stored in the XYZ order. However, points are sometimes stored in the YXZ order. This is common in survey data where the YXZ order is referred to Northing, Easting a