Anyone have any experience sharing C3D drawings with other companies?
We finally got our first project completed by others in C3D. Judging from the lack of messages when opening their files, I'm guessing that the files were created (or at least last-used) in C3D 2008.
Except of course, the drawing that we got from them has none of our styles in it, so it is difficult for us to work in. And as is historically the case with Autocad drawings, we don't want to work directly in their drawings in any case.
Not to mention, they did everything in one file, so we have this huge giant file that is designed to create a 33-page plan set. We don't want all that overhead in the drawing we are using for construction calcs.
So we are trying to extract just the data we want into a new drawing. What we REALLY want to do is create a new drawing and use Map for this, but that doesn't work. I tried it, and there were horrendous errors everywhere before C3D unceremoniously crashed.
I also tried selecting the items I was interested in, and using COPY TO CLIPBOARD. This works fine for stuff I create, but not with this drawing. The copy operation acts like it works, but then when I try to paste the data into a new drawing, nothing happens. No error messages or anything - just an immediate return to the command prompt.
LandXML export/import is also a very undesireable option. There are some 30 alignments spread over six Sites, and in order to keep them in separate Sites, I apparently must export every Site separately. And of course, LandXML does not export any of the annotations or labels, which are very important.
Luckily, it looks like they did everything in one drawing, so there don't seem to be any Vault-created issues. But unfortunately, they did everything in one drawing, so the drawing is a giant mess. Therefore I don't simply want to insert their entire drawing into a new drawing created from our template.
I'm thinking I may get somewhere by taking their drawing, and trying to delete everything I'm not really interested in. Then, when I have done that, try to insert whatever is left into a new drawing created from our template.
But this whole process is striking me as being a complete mess. Anyone else dealt with it yet?
Sinc