On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 17:09:42 +0000, jpostlewait <> wrote:
>Careful what you wish for.
>We are constantly imploring end users to clean up the project directory's to just the files that are a part of the project.
>If they can't delete Nicetry.dwg, or thisistempcrap.dwg, or wtf.dwg Who is going to?
Along those lines, we've implemented as simple naming protocol for our drawings.
Our important "Working" drawings which are Xrefs used in design and
documentation are named with an "X_" prefix. Because all of our "good" files are
used as Xrefs in Sheet files, this makes sense. Sheet files get their own naming
system (project number + sheet number + description), and are pretty self
explanatory, so we don't have to worry about cleaning those up.
Any file that is temporary is named with a "Z_" prefix. For example, if you need
to export (wblock) out a portion of one drawing to use in another, name it
Z_
z_matt.dwg). In fact I have two commands, EXP and IM, which look for this file
automatically for these kinds of Wblock in Insert operations.
The X_ and Z_ prefix have the effect of easily identifying what is a "good"
important drawing from one that is not. A project may create hundreds of Z_
temporary drawings for all sorts of reasons; as long as the user knows they are
temporary, there is not a problem.
Then, every so often, I do a simple search for all Z_*.* files that are over two
months old, and delete them. I also delete all Z files when a project is
archived.
Simple, but it works extremely well.
Matt
mstachoni@comcast.net
mstachoni@bhhtait.com