Can I rubber sheet a DWG?

[musty175054]

I have a DWG that was drawn without a coordinate system. It is the service area of another telephone company that our company purchased and I need to bring this map in to our maps. I use AC Map 3D 2009 and I have Raster Design 2009. Is there a way to rubber sheet the non-referenced DWG to one with coordinates? Or any other way besides redrawing? The scale on the non-referenced drawing is about right but some areas are shifted out of alignment. I would also like to keep all the layers intact. Thanks ahead of time.

[rkmcswain]

Do you have two or more points in the "non-referenced drawing" of which you know the coordinates? If so, and the drawing just needs moved, rotated, and/or scaled - then you could use the ._ALIGN command. If it's more complex than this, there may be tools in Map that can help - I'm not sure at the moment though...

[musty175054]

I don't have any coordinates for the non-referenced dwg, you're talking GPS points, I take it. If that is the case I could probably get them.....As a practice run I wblocked the non-referenced dwg and dragged it over my refernced drawing. The scale on most of the drawing was pretty good but there are portions of it that don't fit correctly. So the distortion isn't uniform over the entire drawing. That's why I was wondering about the rubber sheet.

[david.zavislan]

Map 3D (Included in Civil 3D as well) has a Rubber Sheet command that will work on most basic AutoCAD entities.

[musty175054]

Thanks. I'll give that a shot.
I was told that I needed Raster Design for the process and we had the CD so I installed it. Why would that install make blocks disappear? I had a royal panic this morning wondering how I deleted a bunch of blocks. People in the office who don't have RD could see them. I couldn't find a setting that made a difference, so I uninstalled RD and everything shows up now. Any ideas?

[Jmurphy]

Thanks. I'll give that a shot.
I was told that I needed Raster Design for the process and we had the CD so I installed it. Why would that install make blocks disappear? I had a royal panic this morning wondering how I deleted a bunch of blocks. People in the office who don't have RD could see them. I couldn't find a setting that made a difference, so I uninstalled RD and everything shows up now. Any ideas?
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