Creating Point File Formats

Create two types of point file formats: a user point file format and a user point database format.

A point file format does not contain point data; it describes the way point data is stored in a point data file. When you create a point file format, regardless of whether it is a user point file format or a user point database format, you can specify the following properties:

• A format name, which is displayed in the Settings tree.
• A series of column names that describe both the point information stored in the point data file and the order in which the point information is stored.
• The coordinate zone in which the point data was created. This information is optional, but if you include it, you can automatically perform a coordinate transformation of the point data if you import it into a drawing that uses a different coordinate zone, or if you transfer the points from one file to another.