SMP Posted January 2, 2013 Posted January 2, 2013 Happy New Year all. Hope you all rang in 2013 in a positive manner. I have spent my lunchtime searching for an answer to this but all my googling turns up is to export my layer manager to excel and stuff. This is not what i want to do. I will try to illustrate what i am doing in the easiest manner possible. I have a .DWG with layers "A" right through to "Z" I want to export layers A, E, I, O, U and their contents to a new drawing for another use later. How do i do this? Quote
rkent Posted January 2, 2013 Posted January 2, 2013 If this is a one time thing or something you won't do very often simply freeze all layers, thaw layers and use wblock command. Or saveas to a new drawing, lock layers A,E,I,O,U, erase all. Quote
SMP Posted January 2, 2013 Author Posted January 2, 2013 If this is a one time thing or something you won't do very often simply freeze all layers, thaw layers and use wblock command. Or saveas to a new drawing, lock layers A,E,I,O,U, erase all. This is what i have been doing more or less. I need to get this process going a little faster. This is something i will be doing for every job. Also this will be step one in a 4 step process. I am sure it is possible as at my last place of employment I beleive we did something similar. I am open to other suggestions as well. Is it possible to set up something in my templates where i can save those layers in particular as a "group" i can isolate quickly and then copy them to a new dwg? Quote
rkent Posted January 2, 2013 Posted January 2, 2013 Are they the same layer names each time? The same number of layers each time? If yes, list the actual layer names here. Quote
SMP Posted January 2, 2013 Author Posted January 2, 2013 Are they the same layer names each time? The same number of layers each time? If yes, list the actual layer names here. I will send them to you in a Message if that is o.k. ??? Quote
Murph_map Posted January 2, 2013 Posted January 2, 2013 Happy New Year all. Hope you all rang in 2013 in a positive manner. I have spent my lunchtime searching for an answer to this but all my googling turns up is to export my layer manager to excel and stuff. This is not what i want to do. I will try to illustrate what i am doing in the easiest manner possible. I have a .DWG with layers "A" right through to "Z" I want to export layers A, E, I, O, U and their contents to a new drawing for another use later. How do i do this? Simple with Civ3D and the Map Attach dwg then query tools. That's ADEDRAWINGS and _ADEQUERY from the command line. To make it easy if you need it alot is once you create the query save it to an external file and edit it to turn it into a lsp and put in on a toolbar/ribbon or where ever. Quote
SMP Posted January 2, 2013 Author Posted January 2, 2013 Alot of great help here today!!! Murph i have come to have great faith in you my friend! I will investigate this at once! Quote
Murph_map Posted January 2, 2013 Posted January 2, 2013 If you're doing surveying/land management type dwgs then that's what it, mapattach/query, was designed for. Holler back if you need help setting it up. Quote
Murph_map Posted January 4, 2013 Posted January 4, 2013 If you need to attach a dwg from a network path you need to create an alias for Map3D to browse to it. Quote
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