You were a PLS at a PE firm. Remember how the PES treated the PLSs. How do they treat the CAD techs? I only worked for one and I scared the PES since I know some engineering concepts and can figure out the rest. The drafters were treated like what bears do in the woods. So now you come into the situation of providing a CAD file that meets no standard.
What are they seeking?
Objects on correct layers. I have a LARGE PE firm who wants about 400 layers in every exsiting plan... all items BYLAYER color and linetype.
POLYLINE for all line work. I do sneak in some MPOLYGONS.
MTEXT for all text.
C3D objects for all.
National CAD standards for layers.
Anything else? There are tools to help with all of these items right in Carlson.
Randy Rain, post: 335957, member: 35 wrote: I truly feel your pain Dan, my personal solution to this conundrum is to take the provided engineering file and xref it into my drawing, and align the xref up to state plane, then set my units for dist and angle as high as they will go, and note the insertion x,y and rotation angle, that way if I get anything later from the engineer I can insert it at the same x,y rot and it usually comes in to the right place. Also if I need any geometry from the xref I used to trace over it using osnaps but have since discovered the ncopy command which allows you to copy entities from xrefs directly into your drawing, it's a handy way to find out what layer stuff is on also, ncopy into your dwg view it's layer name and undo so it strips that layer back out of your drawing.
Randy
Try xlist