Saving Digitised Plane Features to .csv format¶
To save digitised plane features captured in 3D View of 3DM Analyst to .csv format, select the menu .
Be sure to select CSV (*.csv) from the Save as Type field when exporting. This will preserve the file formatting in case the .csv file needs to be imported back into 3DM Analyst.
Some users mistakenly choose other .csv formats like Macintosh when exporting plane features. CSV Macintosh uses Carriage Returns (CR — ASCII code 13) at the end of each line rather than Carriage Return + Line Feed (CR+LF — ASCII code 13 followed by ASCII code 10).
CR-only is used to delimit line ends in text files on the Macintosh and Linux (and AmigaOS and Unix — basically everything except Windows and DOS).
Windows has always used CR+LF. Because each line only has a CR at the end, when the first line of the file is read, the entire file is read as a single line, because Windows doesn’t “see” the ends of the lines due to the missing Line Feeds. As far as Windows is concerned, the CSV Macintosh file contains only a single line of text.
This will result in an unsuccessful import if this specific file format is imported back into 3DM Analyst (through the menu selection ).