Access to DXF (how to take points from an Access Database into a DXF file)

Sometimes you have a list of graphical or DXF or mechanical or GIS points in a table in an Access database. You want to see this list of points graphically, view pand and zoom them. You can do this by selecting the cells in the Access database and copying them, and then pasting them into Pointor.

Here is an overview of the process:

Although here we are talking about a table in an Access database, as you can see from the image above you can copy and paste data from any table in any program into Pointor and get your list of points.

How you display the points and save them in a DXF file is up to you, as just use the options dialog box, as shown below:

Even if you have an idea of the extents (feet miles meters lightyears?) there's nothing like axes to give detail of the distribution. The screenshot below shows how labelled axes are a great help in understanding the information which is contained in the list of points. The example below is 2D, though the program can do 3D points as well.

Pointor allows you to enable or disable the axes, just as it does with grids. The measurements used for axes and grid are the same. Whether you choose to show grids or axes or both or non depends on the desnity and type of the your original data.

Options for grids, axes and layers are set in the options dialog box.

If you have some point data you would like to view in Pointor, but are you unsure as to which format to try please contact me. Almost all the formats above have been suggested by customers.

How to convert an Excel table to a DXF file