Re: DBUG> importing ACAD files

[Nick Pyner <npyner@tig.com.au>]

At 07:42 AM 9/05/2008 -0800, Ernie Goble wrote:

>And yes, Ted, there WERE many layers on this site drawing I imported, almost 
>400!!  (it was a very large site plan drawing of a very large site, topo, 
>boundary, utilities, the works)  The main problem was that I couldn't do 
>much with them since most of the drawing ended up on only ONE layer!  Does 
>anyone know if this happens during the transfer?  And is there a way to 
>avoid it?  It certainly would help if I could deal with their layers by 
>turning off the ones I don't need.  Instead, I had to use the drawing 
>simply as a base for tracing.

Yes and no. One problem is with multi-layer symbols (blocks). These come
into DataCad with all the entities on the layer of insertion. I haven't
seen this for a while and I thought it had been fixed with Dcad v11.
Apparently not. It may be fixable by asking the sender to explode the
blocks, but that may not be worth the effort. It probably doesn't explain
the 400 layers anyway. That is better explained by the slack-assed
unprofessionalism prevalent in the AutoCad community. The delete empty
command in your layer manager is a gift from God, with this in mind.

Another great gift is an XRef as your base for tracing. Import the ACad
into an AEC, then start an all new drawing and use that as an XRef. This
keeps your work entirely separate from theirs and each is clearly
identifiable. It also keeps any poisonous influences where they belong. 


Nick Pyner

Dee Why Beach    NSW

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