CompuServe Messages

Jeff: Well, the last one I did was for a standard that didn't allow nested blocks, polylines, ellipses, or 3D elements (so I checked for all of those) and had standard names that were allowed for blocks (so I checked to see that the names fit within the variables allowed) expects no funky text types and no preset text sizes (so I… you get the idea <g>), no associative dimensions, no hatch or otherwise unnamed blocks, and the layer names were all 5 characters long (I just checked layer name length… there wasn't a standard set of names, but a standard way that they had to be named if they were added to the original set). Also, I checked ALL of the acad variables by using a set of association lists for the standard, I checked linetypes, and I checked to make sure that all blocks were inserted on layer 0 but that other entities were not. All of this was written out to a file with the name xxxx.err where xxxx was the drawing name. I didn't bother to try to fix everything since this was a standard that had to be adhered to and the preparers didn't get paid for fixing their drawings. I was getting paid for writing the routines, though, so… C#