Good to Know

When working with Guide points, keep the following in mind:

• Guide points can be imported from a delimited file. It is likely easiest to work with a .csv file, and you can create and save .csv files in Microsoft Excel.

• In your .csv file, you need a column for X (longitude) and a separate column for Y (latitude).

• The application treats the first row as the header row. Thus, a header row is required.

• Although optional, we recommend a Name column to help identify the Guide points. If you do not have a Name column, the application generates IDs for you on the fly.

• The column names can be anything you want, but we recommend logical names (such as Name, X, and Y), as it makes it easier to know which columns to import.

  

• Your .csv file can have other columns of information, but these are not imported with the Guide points.

• We recommend not having empty rows in your .csv file. The import still works, but you receive error messages that it could not create Guide points from the empty rows.

• There is no application limit to the number of Guide points (you could import thousands), but there is a usability limit. It is easier to work with a reasonable number of Guide points, so we recommend not importing superfluous points.

• The following components snap to Guide points:

  • Conductors

  • Conduit

  • Gas Pipe

  • Generic Line Components

  • Poles

  • Surface Structures

• Guide points are only visible on the Design tab. They do not appear on the Layout tab.