Exchanging Codelists Between MicroSurvey and Leica Products

It is simple to exchange your MicroSurvey AutoMap with Leica Infinity and Captivate.

To Create an Automap from a Leica Codelist:

1. Locate a Captivate project in which you've used as many of the existing codes as possible to create linework and use it in the following steps:
2. Create a new project and ensure your MicroSurvey Defaults are configured correctly
3. Open the AutoMap Editor and create a new AutoMap.  Give it a custom name but ensure that is has no codes and set it as the current AutoMap
4. Run the DBX converter
5. Ensure "Process Codelist" is selected (you only need to do this when importing the codelist from Captivate, normally this option should be off)
6. Import. The Codelist used in the field will be applied when creating linework, and will be saved in your AutoMap editor as an AutoMap file named 0.csv
7. Open the AutoMap editor again.  Save the AutoMap 0.csv and overwrite the AutoMap you created in step 2
8. Ensure that there aren't any "rule breaker" characters in your AutoMap field codes, such as:
   1. x,y,z or . prefixes
   2. hyphen characters (these are reserved to be used with the -s, -r and -b modifiers which are added as needed to a core code)
   3. Spaces in codes
9. Save and overwrite the AutoMap again
10. Finally, it will be necessary to review each of your codes to ensure the layer color, linetype, 3D/2D characteristic and line/polyline characteristic are configured correctly.  Any code that is listed in the AutoMap but was not applied during the import will be missing these characteristics and will need the linework characteristics to be manually set
11. Save the AutoMap one more time.  The AutoMap is now applied to your current project and will now be available to use in future projects, or merged with an existing AutoMap
12. NOTE: you only need to do this once, or if you have created new codes that you want to add to an existing AutoMap

To Create a Leica Codelist from your AutoMap:

1. Vist the AutoMap to Infinity Codelist Converter online utility and create a text file with extension *.CSV from your AutoMap
2. Open up a new project in Infinity with default settings.
3. Name the project with the name you would like to give this new codelist
4. From the "Home" ribbon, select Import
5. Make sure ASCII is selected as the import file type
6. Navigate to the text file you created in step 1. (NOTE: even though the AutoMap has extension *.csv" you can't use it for this step!)
7. Under "Template" in the top right, select "New"
8. Configure your template
   1. Give it a name
   2. "Start Import at Row" 2
   3. Select Comma as the column separator
   4. Configure the column optins to match your header as shown below
   5. Press "OK"
9. Import
10. Under the "Features" Ribbon Select "Code Manager"
11. Under Code Table tab that appears when you open the Project Code Manager, highlight "Field Codes," and select the "Default"Code Group Name that appears in the first column.
12. Press CTRL X on your keyboard
13. Highlight "Code Table" and press CTRL V
14. Verify by expanding Code Table to ensure “Default” code group name is available. Further expanding will show all the codes.
15. Highlight "Code Table" again, and select the "Copy to Global" button.
16. Close the Project Code Manager, and navigate to the "File" ribbon, Tools, Code Tables to verify the newly created Code Table. Select the editing tool (pencil icon) to crosscheck all the codes that are available.
17. Using the "Export" button, the codelist now can be exported a SmartWorx/Captivate job, various HeXML, Flexline jobs, and other Infinity jobs.