6th February 2014, 01:09 PM
Completely agree - quality control is the key to making these systems work. Over the years I've developed different templates, layers, codelists, procedures and way too many manuals to cover topic like these!
Isolated features within discrete planning areas on a single sheet rarely create any problems, which is why I don't worry about digitising trench plans or sections drawings - its only where you have large 'organic' linears which traverse several sheets that you tend to notice the problem.
The problem I find is that even though the CAD file only contains the frame and path to an image, on opening - the software still has to load that pathway and, if like me, you have to work on either university or local authority network (we're just about to migrate from XP professional to Windows 7!)...... that is the Achilles heel. If I leave the xref manager open in CAD and accidentally let my mouse move over an image xref - the entire programme hangs for a couple of seconds - even though the image isn't loaded, while it tries to retrieve info from the system that I might want to know.
So, you have to adapt and find workarounds.
Isolated features within discrete planning areas on a single sheet rarely create any problems, which is why I don't worry about digitising trench plans or sections drawings - its only where you have large 'organic' linears which traverse several sheets that you tend to notice the problem.
The problem I find is that even though the CAD file only contains the frame and path to an image, on opening - the software still has to load that pathway and, if like me, you have to work on either university or local authority network (we're just about to migrate from XP professional to Windows 7!)...... that is the Achilles heel. If I leave the xref manager open in CAD and accidentally let my mouse move over an image xref - the entire programme hangs for a couple of seconds - even though the image isn't loaded, while it tries to retrieve info from the system that I might want to know.
So, you have to adapt and find workarounds.
ShadowJack