Table View

Owned by Erlend Kvinnesland
Last updated: Dec 09, 2013
2 min read

Introduction

Table view is a very useful tool when you want to view, edit or add new values in a dataset. It is especially useful for evaluating the coordinates and z-values, making sure they look sensible and are in line with the geodetic properties. The table view will typically show three coordinate columns (X,Y,Z) and often additional attributes column, for a dataset. Read more about this in: VTK Data Structure.


The table view menu



In this section:

Open the Table View

To open up the the table view, right-click the dataset and select Table View


Open Table View

Highlighting points

Make sure that Display marked points is checked before you start highlighting points.

Highlight points in graphics window:

  • Click one one row in the table view to highlight one point.
  • Click and hold down the mouse button and drag the mouse up or down to highlight more than one point.
  • Use "Ctrl + click" or "Shift + click" to highlight selected points.

Highlight points in Table View:

  1. Click on Rubber band select (3D Window)
  2. Click and drag a rectangle over the points you want to highlight in Table View.

Edit the Table View

You have to click Edit Mode to start editing in Table view. Click OK for the changes to take effect.

Create a new column:

  1. Click New Column
  2. Type in a column name and specify column type (Text or Number)
  3. Click OK

Edit fields/cells within a column:

  1. Double click on a cell
  2. Type in a value (number or text)
  3. Press enter

Rename an existing column:

  1. Click Rename Column
  2. Select the column you want to rename and type in a new name
  3. Click OK

Delete a column:

  1. Click Delete Column
  2. Select the column you want to delete
  3. Click OK

Delete points:

  1. Select one or several points (see: Highlighting points)
  2. Click Delete points

Extract points

It is possible to extract a selection of points and create a new dataset of these points or copy the points into a spreadsheet.

Create a new dataset:

  1. Select a group of points (see: Highlighting points)
  2. Right-click in Table View and select Extract Points
  3. Type in a name for the new dataset and click OK
    The new dataset will be saved in the same folder as the original dataset.

Copy points into a spreadsheet:

  1. Select a group of points (see: Highlighting points)
  2. Right-click in Table View and select Copy
  3. Go to your spreadsheet, right-click and select Paste


Right-click to copy or extract points