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If you are in the polygon mode, New Line adds a new polygon to the object. The new polygon
will not be visible yet, since it has not been allocated suitable points (see Mode). You must do this
point allocation by hand. If you are in UVW mode, New Line creates a new UVW coordinate. Since
CINEMA 4D assigns UVW coordinates to primitives automatically and UVW coordinates can be created
easily using the Generate UVW Coordinates command, you may nd little use for this command.
Import ASCII Data
Using this command, you can import points, polygons or UVW coordinates into the Structure manager.
The data that you import must be an ASCII le in the following format.
Point X Y Z
 1 <coordinate> <coordinate> <coordinate>
 2 <coordinate> <coordinate> <coordinate>
 3 <coordinate> <coordinate> <coordinate>
Here’s a real Point mode example for a cube:
Point X Y Z
 0 -100 -100 -100
 1 -100 100 -100
 2 100 -100 -100
 3 100 100 -100
 4 100 -100 100
 5 100 100 100
 6 -100 -100 100
 7 -100 100 100
The ASCII le must start with a header (the ‘Point X Y Z’ in the example above) and each row must start
with the point number. The values within each line may be separated with a TAB character, a comma,
a semicolon or a combination of these. Each line must end with the ASCII LF (linefeed) character or
the CR (carriage return) character, or a combination of both. Thus the ASCII le can be created on a
Macintosh, Windows or Unix computer.
If data already exists in the Structure manager, the imported data is inserted before the line containing
the selection frame