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Some help please!!

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Topic: Some help please!!
Posted By: \\shorty//
Subject: Some help please!!
Date Posted: 13.Nov.2008 at 11:41
Hello everyone, i am new to this site.
i have a problem that i hope that you can be of assistance.
ill start at the start.
i am currently creating the sewer network for a particular area in the uk which includes for nodes and sewer lines. i compiled the layout which has around 2280 nodes on a DOS based program. From this i exported around 28 dxf files to cover the area with overlaps.
the DOS based program does not export things nicely so i ve been cleaning up the drawings for about a week now, basically moving things around.
Now here for the problem: the nodes (circles) tranferred over shouldve been solid hatched but are not. When i try to hatch them i can only visually complete half of them as the rest are duplicated nodes on top of each other. (as i explained before i have to export the dxfs with overlaps so that i cover the entire area).
i cant go back to the start as i have spent a week on it.
the only thing im doing at the mo is creating a node hatched block and placing them over the original node but is taking time as i have to the paste as block command and then move command.
it would be a lot quicker if i could use the paste block command with the node block centre snapping on top of the original node centre. Is this possible?
 
any help welcome
 
thanks


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Posted By: rossassociates
Date Posted: 13.Nov.2008 at 14:29
What OSnaps have you got enabled?  Which version of AutoCAD are you using?

Posted By: \\shorty//
Date Posted: 13.Nov.2008 at 17:46
i have this sorted now after a long laborious time. using centre osnap i pasted the new node hatch block onto the centre of the original non hatched nodes (this did not place cnetre on centre but for each node was in a relative place that i could do a mass move). then after 2280 point and clicks later, i selected all the new blocks and using the move command i snapped the centre of the new node onto the old. i know this took several hours, but it was the only way i could think of.
 
i am new to auotcad. the version im using is lt2005.
 
problem numero deux that i am now having to solve. i have a very large grid broken down into 100m grid squares. i want to add text (the easting and northings) to each of the lines making up the grid. is there a way of easily doing this?
 
the only way i can think off is creating a text number then offsetting it by 100m and then changing each text individually to reflect the easting and northing.
 
thanks

Posted By: Arben.Allaraj
Date Posted: 13.Nov.2008 at 17:49
Originally posted by \\shorty// \\shorty// wrote:

Hello everyone, i am new to this site.
i have a problem that i hope that you can be of assistance.
ill start at the start.
i am currently creating the sewer network for a particular area in the uk which includes for nodes and sewer lines. i compiled the layout which has around 2280 nodes on a DOS based program. From this i exported around 28 dxf files to cover the area with overlaps.
the DOS based program does not export things nicely so i ve been cleaning up the drawings for about a week now, basically moving things around.
Now here for the problem: the nodes (circles) tranferred over shouldve been solid hatched but are not. When i try to hatch them i can only visually complete half of them as the rest are duplicated nodes on top of each other. (as i explained before i have to export the dxfs with overlaps so that i cover the entire area).
i cant go back to the start as i have spent a week on it.
the only thing im doing at the mo is creating a node hatched block and placing them over the original node but is taking time as i have to the paste as block command and then move command.
it would be a lot quicker if i could use the paste block command with the node block centre snapping on top of the original node centre. Is this possible?
 
any help welcome
 
thanks


You have a Dos programs can be around CAD-CAM .

So  try to save your file  as R12.


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