About Exporting Point Coordinates

When you use the Coordinate Export tool, use one of the following methods to select industry model point coordinates:

• Select the points in the map.
• Select the points from a trace, using a logical topology .
• Select the points from the current job .
• Select the points from areas, using an area topology .
• Select the points from a feature class form.

The Coordinate Export tool creates various output formats.

GSI

To export to GSI files, the point features must have a point number that is stored in the attribute TB_POINTNUMBER.

Generic File Formats

For generic file formats, the Coordinate Export tool exports coordinates and point attributes that you specify in the Format Definition Manager.

Text Files

Export point coordinates to any text file for which you have defined the export format. The export format can be lines with fixed column width or lines with separators.