skipsophrenic Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 Hi, Is there any way to find out who's accessed and screwed up a drawing in my absence.? Basically the drawing history? Quote
NBC Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 I think you can find out who last saved the dwg file, by right clicking on it, selecting Properties, then navigating to the Statistics tab. Quote
skipsophrenic Posted July 15, 2009 Author Posted July 15, 2009 Thanks, Got the info i needed, an engineer had decided that he would make some "Minor" changes, unlocked a viewport panned zoomed messed drawing, didn't follow standards - pretty much broke every rule in the book. Quote
skipsophrenic Posted July 15, 2009 Author Posted July 15, 2009 ReMark, right now thats how i feel, after postin this i'll be loggin off 'cos this is gonna take me at least a couple hours to fix Quote
NBC Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 Tell your Project Manager that it is costing money to put right someone else's mess-up ! Then after that, have a word with the engineer (who doesn't know CAD) and politely instruct him how to achieve properly what he messed up. This will hopefully, stop a reocurrence of this. Failing that, refer to ReMark's suggestion Quote
Zorg Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 Learn him of his mistake and educate him how not to make a very easily avoidable error Failing that, refer to ReMark's suggestion Failing that, burn the two halves and submerge the remains somewhere at the end of the thames. Good luck Quote
skipsophrenic Posted July 15, 2009 Author Posted July 15, 2009 i think i'll just go quietly mad. It's easier! Quote
michaeloureiro Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 quick question: why is it that i keep on seeing that alot of engineers and architects don´t know how to use cad?? is there some specific reason for that? Around here if you don´t know cad you´re unemployed be it engineer or architect. Quote
NBC Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 It may be easier for now. But do you really want a repeat episode of this ? Quote
EMS_0525 Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 quick question: why is it that i keep on seeing that alot of engineers and architects don´t know how to use cad?? is there some specific reason for that? Around here if you don´t know cad you´re unemployed be it engineer or architect. As far as i have seen, drafters have been taught cad for years and years, we may turn into designers and engineers, but deep down cad is in our blood. Engineers never learned cad, then they think its easy and get it and get into drawings and mess everything up... they were never taught drafting. They were taught engineering, i cant tell you how many times ive told an engineer, "You do your job, engineering, and let me do my job, drafting." Quote
michaeloureiro Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 ems_0525, I understand that everybody has their own place, but cad is a universal tool. It seems a bit foolish to me, that an engineer doesn´t know how to use cad. go figure Quote
NBC Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 different cultures i guess michael. surely an engineer's time is more effectively spent on producing engineering solutions, rather than getting bogged down with cad ? Quote
EMS_0525 Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 Every place i have worked except the place im currently at the engineers did no cad work. Plus its more expensive to have engineers draft than drafters, drafters get paid less than engineers. Quote
michaeloureiro Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 I wouldn´t say doing all the work, but surely they should know the basics, or enough as not to screw up somebody else´s work. Quote
EMS_0525 Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 Think about how much you have to know to not screw something up... its so easy to mess something up. Engineers should have cad viewers, with no ability to modifiy the dwg. Quote
NBC Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 Engineers should have cad viewers, with no ability to modifiy the dwg. But, like all Engineers, they don't. They don't think they know best, they 'KNOW' best :wink: Quote
Patrick Hughes Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 Hi, Is there any way to find out who's accessed and screwed up a drawing in my absence.? Basically the drawing history? Skipso, see my sig. The program is designed to do exactly what you're looking for and maintains a second x second history of everyone that accesses the drawing. Quote
Patrick Hughes Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 Think about how much you have to know to not screw something up... its so easy to mess something up. Engineers should have cad viewers, with no ability to modifiy the dwg. Or read only privileges to the drawing files - that really is not that hard to do. Quote
EMS_0525 Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 then it gets messy, then the can still do stuff in it... lol... save copies and such. Quote
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