Disclaimer for Transferring Files

[Anonymous]

How is everyone dealing with transferring drawings to other firms
is DWG format? I'm reffering to the legal issues. Are you including
a disclaimer? Are you keeping a record (printed or otherwise) of
files sent or received?

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

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David W. Edwards
Dave Edwards Consulting
Makers of TC Fonts - "Your Total CAD Font Solution!"
Tel: 334-221-7919
info@tcfonts.com - www.tcfonts.com

[Anonymous]

David,

We send a disclaimer, although not to our standard consultants due to
laziness. It just states essentially that they are still responsible to
verify all conditions and that the signed final set is the final say.

The following I pasted from my response to a similar question in ADT2
group, I am just too lazy to retype it.

We create a separate background file which we keep in a background
folder. That file is named by date and release like
010301_0101_FileName_R14 for today's date, job number, file name and
release it is saved in. We object explode backgrounds for the engineers
because of the color changing problem that the object enabler has yet to
address. We send the drawings as is and let the consultants clean them
up as they need.

One step further than that even you can think of this as a legal issue
also. We print out a copy of the e-mail or transmittal and file that.
We also keep all the backgrounds sent out throughout the project. Why?
If you end up in a situation where a consultant missed something and
says you did not give them the information you can look up the e-mail,
check the file name and open up the file you sent them. If this begins
to be too many files you can always save them to CD-RW and of course
they are zipped to start with. We recently had a situation where some
fire dampers were missed and a quick review of the background we sent
last made it clear they were not using the most current one sent. I do
not know how well this hold up in court being it is electronic format
and easily modified but it certainly helps.

Evan Larson

"David W. Edwards (TC Fonts)" wrote:
>
> How is everyone dealing with transferring drawings to other firms
> is DWG format? I'm reffering to the legal issues. Are you including
> a disclaimer? Are you keeping a record (printed or otherwise) of
> files sent or received?
>
> Any input would be greatly appreciated.
>
> --
>
> David W. Edwards
> Dave Edwards Consulting
> Makers of TC Fonts - "Your Total CAD Font Solution!"
> Tel: 334-221-7919
> info@tcfonts.com - www.tcfonts.com