This is a question for all of you Carlson gurus. I have a standard drawing that I open up and do a save as to start a new drawing that has all of my layers with associated linetypes and colors. I do a lot of work for an engineering company that likes for me to place all of the entities onto their layers. Not a huge issue because there is usually only a handful of layers (20-25) that I use and have to change over for every drawing. My typical process begins with me drafting the survey up in my dwg and then doing a save as and adding some name to the end of the dwg name to let me know that this is the dwg to send to the engineer. I then purge my drawing of all unused layers and then insert their layers. I then open up the layer manager and delete each of my layers one at a time placing them on the engineering companies layers. It can be time consuming. Is there a program, similar to field to finish, that I can setup with my layers and their layers that I could run that would make the last step quicker?
Since they sound like a regular client, why not just make a drawing template and F2F file just for their projects? A few hours investment in doing this would be a long term investment in your client.
In Carlson there is a layer library function that able to see and change layer.
If you are using AutoCAD as your CAD engine, there is the command:
File > Drawing Utilities > Translate Layers
It looks like this will do exactly what you wish. You can set up the layer translation, then save it as a file to load the next time you need those settings.
I don't know if IntelliCAD has something similar.
Since they sound like a regular client, why not just make a drawing template and F2F file just for their projects? A few hours investment in doing this would be a long term investment in your client.
This is your best approach. The other way, maybe, is to open up the layer dialogue box and just rename each of your layers to their corresponding layer.
But it's probably so much easier to copy your .fld file, rename to the engineering company, and change the layer for the field codes. That way you're only doing it once, not every time
@peter-lothian Intellicad has this. I will try this out because this seems like the best approach. I keep the master dwg on my layers so that I can create the deliverables and use my print styles. I only provide the client with a stripped-down dwg.
THANK YOU! I have been doing it the long way for 5 years now.
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It probably goes without saying, but the “TRANSLAYER” command if also useful to push multiple layers names to one common layer usually after a Xref or Import.
EXAMPLE20 + EXAM20 = EXAMPLE
F2F is usually in the beginning of project, you said that when done you "rename" your layers to there layers.
I would look at "translayers" command in Carlson.
you can setup layers in = layers out and save to file, then reuse when needed.