Autocad Question

[Ritch7]

is there some kind of tool that can auto check your drawings for general errors (eg. line breaks etc?) whats quick and easy? im sure there must be?!

cheers guys

[Hedgehog]

I know quite a few people use scripts to do things like this using overkill, audit & purge, & incorporating a wipeout killer :twisted: & things. Just general clean-up tools.

[Ritch7]

alrite kool, iv'e heard of that "OVERKILL" lol :twisted: , i have just been given a folder full of wellhead system dwrgs on acad, and been asked to just alter sum figures, CHECK OVER and employ the company logo, was the most effective quick and easy clean up tool to go for?! got untill 4pm lol.



(29 drawings :x !!)

[LElkins]

Not sure about a tool for highlighting line breaks, but for fixing lines, check out the attached lisp. This is not my work, and I can not remember where I got it from. Sorry.

Cheers

[LElkins]

alrite kool, iv'e heard of that "OVERKILL" lol :twisted: , i have just been given a folder full of wellhead system dwrgs on acad, and been asked to just alter sum figures, CHECK OVER and employ the company logo, was the most effective quick and easy clean up tool to go for?! got untill 4pm lol.



(29 drawings :x !!)

Pull a sicky???
Alter some figures...well, think you are on your own unless they the same in each file.
Add logo, few ways to do this, leave it to last, and either you a script with a bat to insert it, or quickly chuck together a lisp/vba, will be easy enough. Is this going to be at the same scale, location, etc. in each file?
Checking though, well there is nothing better than the human eye unfortunately.

Good Luck...

[Ritch7]

hey LElkins,

yeh there all the same scale the figures and logo is basic stuff a monkey could do, the guy just asked if i could check over the drawings for line errors because he said some were RUSHED lol, but im sure o-snap should have got most of them, im on the 18th now, only encounterd 3 errors out of the hole lot! thanks tho. :)

[MrMaggs]

overkill?
more like overrated!

any one else having trouble gettin this command to work within half hour?

Could use the wipeout killer though, is this a lisp or built in?

[chrisdarmanin]

large drawings take a lot of time with overkill...

[Hedgehog]

large drawings take a lot of time with overkill...
Yes, but you can check smaller areas which speed it up considerably... if you think about it comparing all entities with each other is a bit wasteful if they're on opposite sides of a large drawing anyway :)

[chrisdarmanin]

Yes, but you can check smaller areas which speed it up considerably... if you think about it comparing all entities with each other is a bit wasteful if they're on opposite sides of a large drawing anyway :)


hmm makes sense.. usually i dont bother with overkill cos it only erases a few lines. and i also take a lot of time to 'clean' received drawings and xreffing which make the drawing experience more pleasant :lol::D

[Alan Cullen]

Da Da Da.

I always snap to points, (use blipmode to confirm), Never have a problem like this. But an interesting problem, nontheless. Ritch, get better at drawing control. LISP MAN signing out. :lol: :twisted: :P o:)

[Stangman]

If you use the "spell" command it'll check for general spelling mistakes; but like MS Word Spellchecker, it isn't fool proof. In fact, it said I spelled fascia wrong.

[SLW210]

If you use the "spell" command it'll check for general spelling mistakes; but like MS Word Spellchecker, it isn't fool proof. In fact, it said I spelled fascia wrong.

Spellchecker in my AutoCAD says fascia is correctly spelled.