3D Line Graph manipulation

Question

I am writing software for a device that would plot a 3D graph/line plot of where someone has traveled. This plotting will be during post-processing of the data, so real time is not a requirement.

My key problem is, I can't find suitable tools or even other CAD software (eg. Autocad) which will plot a line graph (I imagine it would plot it as a 'path'?) from a data file (eg. CSV) which I can then manipulate like a CAD model (ie. move it around, rotate it to view from different angles, etc).

There is a real-time aspect to it where my computer will connect to the device at regular intervals, pull current location data, and store it. The computer will run and communicate through a Windows Forms app but only at the end do I need to plot the graph.

Would you have any suggestions on how to go about this?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

So much easier than I though it would be.

Basically, generate a new file named points.scr (this is an AutoCAD script file), that contains the following:

._LINE 0,0,0 1,2,4 2,2,4 C

Run this is AutoCAD by typing "scr" into the command prompt and selecting the points.scr file.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-2004-2005-2006/script-to-draw-line/td-p/1219015