Receiving drawings from architect...

[jwilliams.67235]

I'm having problems with drawings received from an architect, when they come in, our linework that went to them (curbs ect. that they used to align their building) will not join or intersect when it comes back. We've tried about everything from p-edit to drawing clean-up and the only thing that works is erasing the line and re-drawing it. The problem occurs only with lines (curves are fine?)
Has anyone else encountered this problem?

Thanks,
-Joe Williams

[Ammon]

I'm having problems with drawings received from an architect, when they come in, our linework that went to them (curbs ect. that they used to align their building) will not join or intersect when it comes back. We've tried about everything from p-edit to drawing clean-up and the only thing that works is erasing the line and re-drawing it. The problem occurs only with lines (curves are fine?)
Has anyone else encountered this problem?

Thanks,
-Joe Williams

Um... refuse to work with architects. They always screw up drawings here as well. j/k

[MHultgren]

Make your drawing into a block before you sen it to them, then when you get it back, delete your layers and reinsert the block. Since it is your data, they should NOT be modifying it. Or better yet, Just xref your data into the file or vice versa. xref their file into yours AFTER you delete your linework from the drawing they return

[dfarris75]

Good idea. Or you could just threaten them.
There wouldn't be any compatibility issues between yours and theirs versions of Acad that may cause this issue would there?

[Hammer.John.J]

we deal with several arch and we never actually use their work perse. we redraft their work to get what we need from them and insert our linework into our drawings, because of the platform issues and aec object problems. easiest and highest quality because you know your stuff isn't modified in your drawings that you insert their redrafted work into.

avoid using Adt linework etc.

[MHultgren]

Another approach is to take thier drawing, explode everything in it that they did then do a Save-As R12 dxf. Then use Map to query in the linework you need into your Arch Base dwg. This works if you have the AECOBJEXPLODE.dll that allows you to explode the ADT Objects into text, lines and arcs.

[andy.manninen]

Usually what we do with any DWG's from others is explode it into lines and arcs, convert all text into our L100, change layers to our layers and copy the linework we need into a blank dwg. From there you can purge and audit the dwg to make sure all architectural junk is out. lastly we copy the cleaned linework into our base DWG's. This makes sure you don't bring in any dim styles, text styles, etc etc. Always remember to purge out as much as you can, and to check the items you can't purge, because that will tell you what is still being used in the drawing!

[Hammer.John.J]

more or less the 3 of us doing the same.