CJ,
Does your program keep the layout tabs when it saves to 2000? Or does it
just keep one?
"CJ Follmer" wrote in message
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> > 2. How do you handle working with outside consultants not using ADT or
> > equivalent (i.e.. structural, electrical, mechanical), do you saveas,
> > explode, strip or simply send them your base drawings and let them deal
> > with it?
>
>
> I don't have 10 seats at my firm (only 4) but when we work with outside
> consultants, I usually just explode everything down to lines. I tried the
> "just install the object enabler" method for a while but had problems
> because in a couple of firms, the IT people don't like the users adding
> programs onto their system and usually the people with whom we would tell
> this to (the project managers) were clueless about much cad since they
have
> drafters that do the work and the drafters either couldn't or wouldn't
> install something like that since it meant doing something different.
Long
> story short, there was a major break down in communication and rather than
> go through 6 people and maybe 2 hours to possibly get them to install an
OE,
> I just saved the time and exploded it all out.
>
> I wrote a routine to do this quicker so I wouldn't have to spend that much
> time explaining to the people at my firm the best way to do this since if
> you don't make a copy, you could potentially wreak your ADT model.. It's
> called SaveAsR14 and will first make a copy of the file to a default
> location or user specified and then allows you to explode the ADT objects
> plus a few other things depending on what version you're saving to- 13,14,
> 2000. Other things it will do is for 13 and 14, convert non-plotting
layers
> to defpoints, remove extra layouts and purge the drawing.
>
> It is free at my website.
>
> CJ Follmer
> SaveAsR14
> http://home.att.net/~cjenn
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