Hi

I am currently the sole GIS professional for a county in Georgia and have been using ESRI products for 5 years now.

I began with ArcINFO Workstation and transitioned to ArcGIS with the 8.3 release when they finally got the polygon topology to the point where I didn't have to go back and forth to workstation to check on it. :-)

I use ArcINFO 9.1 currently and am about to transition to a enterprise geodatabase to support a part-time GIS Technician we are hiring (rolling out CU ArcEditor for them) and to serve .5 ft aerial photography we had flown this last winter.

That should do for intros... now.. the question:

I just received two DVDs of bare-earth points in .xyz (Either generated from Microstation or AutoCAD 3D) format. Unfortunately. ArcGIS does not support this format and does not even have a ArcTool to convert this to into something recognizable. I have searched through the ESRI support forums and found no tool that has been made to do this. I have googled until my fingers have bled and haven't even found a freeware way to convert, in batch, these space delimited data files to .csv (which ArcGIS DOES recognize).

I took one of the .xyz files, saved it as a .txt file, manually added field names and replaced the spaces with commas and saved it as a .csv. Hurray, hurray, that worked!! BUT, I have a thousand files.... :-)

Anybody know of a script or program that will do this? Free is the operative word here. Thank you, in advance, for your time in thinking on this.