SEP 3 Exchange Database Import

SEP 3 is a German-market state-authority data exchange standard - the import procedure and troubleshooting for it live on the German support portal.

SEP 3 is the German state-authority (Landesamt) standard for geological borehole data exchange. It applies when a Landesamt delivers borehole data as a plain SEP 3 Access database - a file containing only the SEP 3 data tables, without the GeoDin system wrapper tables a normal project database requires.

GeoDin cannot open such a file directly as a project database. A special exchange database (German: Austauschdatenbank) bridges the two: it reads the SEP 3 table structure from the authority's file and exposes the objects so they can be copied into your main GeoDin database.

SEP 3 - like SEP 1, its legacy predecessor - is German-market-specific: the object types, table structures, and delivery format are defined by German state authorities and are not used outside that market.

For the exchange-database download, connection, and step-by-step import procedure, see Import externer SEP3-Daten mit der SEP3-Austausch-Datenbank on the German support portal, which is the canonical home for SEP content. For SEP import problems, see Problems with SEP data.

For general (non-SEP) import how-tos, see Import and Cross-database object copying.