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Hello everyone, I'm new around here!

 

I was presented with a new project and challenge today that involves a bit of cleaning up and standardizing layer names etc.

and also to somehow set up a decent managing system for old and new drawings in this project

 

The project is a factory complex placed on something like 10 different drawings including architectural,

constructional and special machine blocks that needs to be placed precisely on the architectural underlay

 

The problem i face is the fact that we only have Autocad LT 2010 here at the office and my gut feeling tells me that this is gonna be a problem if we want to

manage multiple drawings inside "one project"

 

If i had the full Autocad versions "Project manager" this would be, well not a walk in the park but at least i'd know how to go about!

But now I'm a bit confused on how to do this

 

 

So final questions would be:

a) Is this even possible in LT

b) Is there any plugins/external programs that would make this easier?

 

Maby i should i try to use a bottom drawing with everything else xref-ed into?

 

Thanks in advance for any answers, Robert

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The cleaning up and standardization of layer names could be handled with a script perhaps.

 

I don't see any reason why you could not manager 10 drawings with AutoCAD LT.

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The only drawback I can think of right now to using AutoCad LT 2010 for managing these drawings is that you will have to plot them one page at a time. I learned to live by the Sheetset Manager in AutoCad 2009 at my last corporate position because we had a lot of huge multi-page projects that seemed to need plotting all at once way too often.

 

Other than that, LT has nearly all the layer, color, line, and block capability as full AutoCad.

 

Maybe you could convince management to upgrade to a current release of LT so you could at least have the Sheet Set manager and a couple of other nice items previously only available in full AutoCad.

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