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#CAD Standards

    14-Jan-92 12:11:58
Sb: #CAD Standards
Fm: Jeff Hester 70672,3573
To: RICK LLEWELLYN 73417,1357
Rick (and anyone else): I'm in the initial stages of planning for a drawing audit program which would "check" a group of drawings for compliance with company CAD standards. As I see it, it is virtually impossible to truely check a file for compliance; I see this program acting to "raise a flag" on potential problem files. At the very minimum, it would validate layer names, text styles and linetypes, probably checking against an external file. I MAY also go as far as doing some sort of rudimentary entity-to-file size ratio reporting, check for inappropriate entities on certain layers (LINES on layer TEXT, for example), or limits/scale checking (to verify reasonable numbers). I'm curious though. I haven't seen any such product on the market, and I'm wondering if it's out there but I'm just missing it. What was your goal with DWGDUMP? Does anyone else have any experience developing similar procedures and/or programs? Am I missing some critical items to check? I'd be willing to share the results of my work, but don't want to reinvent the wheel. Thanks, Jeff Hester