ACDSee Forums Topic: Opening text files and plotting data

ACDSee Forums Topic: Opening text files and plotting data http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ ACDSee Forums Topic: Opening text files and plotting data en Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:54:01 +0000 jhren on "Opening text files and plotting data" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/opening-text-files-and-plotting-data#post-41950 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:01:05 +0000 jhren 41950@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ PS: To check for outlying entities (off-screen or off-canvas) make sure you have Select Across Layers enabled (or not, if you only want to check the active layer), then Edit>Select All, then Layout>View>Fit to Window. Note the Select All command does not select any hidden objects.  You can use this "feature" in conjunction with the Document Layout palette's Show/Hide feature to check only several but not all layers or a certain group of objects. jhren on "Opening text files and plotting data" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/opening-text-files-and-plotting-data#post-41948 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:46:57 +0000 jhren 41948@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ <blockquote> <cite><a href="#post-41730">rsands said:</a></cite> ... This highlighted a problem I have finding entities like this. I'd created a GIS file and when the polygon came in it was 5400000 units off the screen. How does one find where these things are and qucikly bring them onto the page? </blockquote>  Try using the Document Layout palette.  When you create an entity, it should be at the top of the list for the Layer on which it was created.  Highlight that object in the list.  This should select the object, even if it is off screen.  Cut the object, then Paste.  This should place the object in the center of your screen, where you can simply relocate it as desired.  Another option when highlighted in the Document Layout palette is to note its coordinates on the... can't remember offhand what it's called, so I'll call it the... properties bar.   From there, change the object's coordinates to the required position, on-screen or not. jhren on "Opening text files and plotting data" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/opening-text-files-and-plotting-data#post-41946 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:35:25 +0000 jhren 41946@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ <blockquote><cite><a href="#post-41728">kohanmike said:</a></cite> I did not know that Canvas had that ability. I tried to do a test in Canvas X b926 Mac, I used coordinates that I found in the Canvas manual in the Object Path Editor example, typed three lines of coordinates with tabs between each, copied and tried the paste choices, and also saved a txt tab delimited document and tried to load it, all I got was an "Invalid format' message every time. I don't know what other way to do the format. The manual simply says tab delimited coordinates. </blockquote>  Sounds like you formatted ok. Suggest you export (aka Save) a path to file then open it in your text editor to see how it is formatted.  Opening in a word processor which can display hidden characters, such as Word, may help.  Note a bezier path is formatted the same textually but has an extra line per Handle.  If formatted as bezier, I think you you will get the invalid format message if you attempt to use the Load Polygon option... and perhaps vice-versa. rsands on "Opening text files and plotting data" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/opening-text-files-and-plotting-data#post-41730 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:58:09 +0000 rsands 41730@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Mike I just tried this and got same. But then renamed extension from txt to csv, opened in Excel and saved as tab delim text file. It looked like this 445059.407    5417107.878 444608.01    5417344.048 442442.591    5419563.625 Then it imported OK. This highlighted a problem I have finding entities like this. I'd created a GIS file and when the polygon came in it was 5400000 units off the screen. How does one find where these things are and qucikly bring them onto the page? If I was doing this in real GIS world that wouldn't be an issue as it would all be georeferenced and so importing into a created job would sit OK. kohanmike on "Opening text files and plotting data" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/opening-text-files-and-plotting-data#post-41728 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:19:52 +0000 kohanmike 41728@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I did not know that Canvas had that ability. I tried to do a test in Canvas X b926 Mac, I used coordinates that I found in the Canvas manual in the Object Path Editor example, typed three lines of coordinates with tabs between each, copied and tried the paste choices, and also saved a txt tab delimited document and tried to load it, all I got was an "Invalid format' message every time. I don't know what other way to do the format. The manual simply says tab delimited coordinates. jhren on "Opening text files and plotting data" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/opening-text-files-and-plotting-data#post-41685 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:56:41 +0000 jhren 41685@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Look into using the Object Path Editor, in the Object menu... Display the palette and click on the down-pointing-arrow button at the top right side.  Choose "Load Polygon".  You may have to restructure your text to match how Canvas reads the text. kohanmike on "Opening text files and plotting data" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/opening-text-files-and-plotting-data#post-41537 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:28:26 +0000 kohanmike 41537@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ As far as I know, Canvas does not have a function to plot graphs. You will probably have to do it manually, or find specific graph plotting software. noneck on "Opening text files and plotting data" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/opening-text-files-and-plotting-data#post-41490 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:52:42 +0000 noneck 41490@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Hi! I´m a beginner and I would like to ask you how I can open a text file and plot the data (X,ErrX,Y,ErrY) on a graph. I tried to look for some help about plotting graphs on the Canvas 11 user guide but I didn't find anything so basic.... Are there other user guides that I can read to find information about this kind of problems? Thank you very  much for your help.