blueprint configuration / organization

[bjenk8100]

Hello,

 

I am about to endeavor into the biggest thing I have ever dealt with with autocad. I have the architecturals dwg's of an enormous project. They drew the entire building's roof plan in model space. They drew thick black lines sectioning the roof into 20 different sections still in model space. If you go to paper space it is an idividual blueprint which is one quadrant (20 different blueprints/quadrants = entire roof). Basically, they drew the entire roof on one dwg and used paper space to section it off. We have to give a roof plan (like theirs), but with our details incorporated. I want to use their cads but do not want to have to deal with entire roof plan when in model space. They made the entire roof a block I guess so they could move it around in paper space to show the quadrant they were talking about. I tried exploding it and highlighting everything in the quadrant but there are thousands of objects in each quadrant. Anybody have some advice of getting each quadrant individually into its own dwg. Is there a way to make a box and copy everything in it and nothing outside of it or something? Only thing i can think of is trimming but that would take forever. Any help would be great.

 

Thanks

[ReMark]

You should follow what they did rather than try to split the drawing up into 20 separate drawings.

 

DO NOT EXPLODE ANYTHING! That is just asking for more trouble and work than you can handle given the info you provided above.

[Pablo Ferral]

I'll bet they were using Xref's (and X clipping or the sheet set manager with views) and Bound the Xref's into the DWG using e-transmit before they sent it out to you...

 

I suggest a bit of reverse engineering...

[SuperCAD]

XREF their drawing into your new drawing file(s) and clip the XREF down to what you want to focus on.

[bjenk8100]

i dont knwo much about xrefs

 

i will look into it

[bjenk8100]

Well,

 

I decided to put the section of the roof at hand in layout and print to file. I then pdfattach'ed it in acad and traced the major areas leaving out what I wanted to leave out. I just made the common shapes for drains, vent stacks, etc and added them later. It takes a lot of time but itll work i guess.

[SuperCAD]

Dude, you're wasting a lot of time doing it that way. Look up XREF in the help files. At least then you can snap to the geometry rather than tracing and hoping that it's close.

[bjenk8100]

the way i am doing it snap works. I think I am doing xref procedure without even knowing it but i will look into it. Wehn I pdf attach all the snaps work.

 

Thanks