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import-3D-poly.lsp imports x,y,z coordinates from Excel spreadsheet and draws polyline.
Two readers want to import Excel spreadsheet data into AutoCAD. David Rodrigues wants to bring a DOS text file saved from an
Excel spreadsheet into AutoCAD. John Kuenzle of Waukesha, Wisconsin, needs to create 3D polylines from x,y,z coordinates
stored in an Excel spreadsheet. IMPORT-3D-POLY.LSP takes a set of x,y,z coordinates from a comma-delimited text file and
creates a 3D polyline. A comma-delimited text file is a file type you can save directly from an Excel spreadsheet. Figure 1 shows
a sample Excel spreadsheet, and figure 2 shows the corresponding comma-delimited text file. The result of running IMPORT-3D-
POLY.LSP appears in figure 3. More than a thousand 3D points went into creating this 3D polyline in the form of a helical coil.
IMPORT-3D-POLY.LSP displays the 3D Points File dialog box shown in figure 4, where you can locate the text file that contains
the required points. No further user interaction is required. The 3D polyline is drawn on the current layer.
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