Product Manual

Importing Control a Point to a Job
MAGNET Tools ver 1.0
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Importing Control a Point to a
Job
The MAGNET Tools allows you to import a text coordinate file that
does not contain information about the coordinate system and linear
units. The file contains ONLY the values of coordinates. To import
the point coordinates in the corresponding coordinate system, you
have to:
- know this coordinate system or projection,
- set this coordinate system / projection as current before
importing.
Let us import the coordinate file in SPC-83 grid system, zone Ohio
(North) for NAD83 datum, where grid coordinates are in US Feet and
a comma delimiter is used in the format:
To import control points to a job, do the following steps:
1. Open or create a job.
2. Click
Job and click the icon in the Exchange group.
3. Select the file format ‘Name,N,E,Z,Code’ in the list of
Coordinates files of the Format name field
of the Import window.
4. Navigate to the location of the desired text file.
5. Click the Advanced options field
, to show the fields where you
can define the coordinate system and linear units:
- select the USFeet in the Metric unit field
- select the Grid in the Coordinate type field