FlexiTable™ Import & Export File Formats

Introduction

By input and output formats, we mean non-MicroStation files. FlexiTable™ can read files in a variety of data formats. It can write to several different formats. The raison d'être of FlexiTable is to provide compatibility with Microsoft Excel™, which it does admirably.

Input Formats

FlexiTable reads files in the following formats …

• Microsoft Excel™
• Comma-Separated-Variables (CSV)
• Specialised CSV formats, including …
  • Colour files
• XML
• Specialised XML formats, including …
  • Tag Definitions
  • Pattern Libraries
  • CAD Quality Assurance (QA) files

FlexiTable reads a file into a single worksheet. However, when it opens an Excel workbook, it opens a worksheet for each worksheet it finds in the Excel workbook.

Output Formats

FlexiTable writes files in the following formats …

• Microsoft Excel™
• Comma-Separated-Variables (CSV)
• Specialised CSV formats, including …
  • Colour files
• XML
• Specialised XML formats, including …
  • Tag Definitions
  • Pattern Libraries
  • FlexiChart™ chart specification files