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Anonymous
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Help on taking over a someone elses drawing

I'm quite new to CAD and have been asked to take over one of my company's drawings for a construction site layout that spans ~2 square miles. 

  • It contained over 600 layers and over 100 different blocks.
  • None of the layers were grouped or had descriptions.
  • Some layers, and all blocks had obscure names like; line, S281C05 and A$C1BDB3141.
  • Layers have been mixed up; e.g. there are objects in a windows layer that shouldn't be, and there are windows in layers they shouldn't be. 
  • There were over 200 empty layers and some with only one or two objects (some of which I have no idea what they are supposed to represent).
  • Most of the blocks had been created with 'by layer' settings instead of 'by block', so I have to edit them individually to change their color, transparency, etc.
  • Turning off layer visibility doesn't always turn off the visibility of blocks in that layer, sometimes it makes some of the block invisible and sometimes makes blocks or parts of blocks that are not in that layer invisible.

I've spent several days sorting out the layers and purging all the unused ones; while far from perfect, it's now usable.

So I was hoping for some advice; what tasks or functions are there that can be performed to expedite cleaning up a drawing and avoid going through everything manually?