Blocking a layout?

[uteengineering]

I would like to send a drawing to a surveyor with just the information in the layouts and not all of our drafting stuff. How do i do this with out going through everylayer and removing the stuff i dont want him to see. I would like to send a working drawing that is basically the same as what would be on our paper plans. I have tried blocking the paperspace layout, but it doesnt not contain the model space data. and vice versa.... Please someon help

thank you

 

[IFRs]

Can't be done. The stuff in paper space is the SAME stuff as in model space. Paper space is just a different window to the same objects. You can not remove objects from model space that have to be visible in paper space. You can remove the rest, however. For those, XRrefs may be your answer.

 

[hendie]

what about using a DWF file ?

 

[borgunit]

If the items are on a certain layer, you can turn that layer off in a particular viewport in a layout. You can also turn the items invisible and then turn them back on, but this has caveats (if you would forget to turn them on). This is accomplished through LISP and changing a toggle on the object's invisible property. If you want to try that I can post a snippet.

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers

 

[IFRs]

You can wbloc out the objects he/she needs to see, then insert them into a new drawing with slighely different scale factors, ie 1.00000 and 0.99999. This will make the block harder to explode and mess with.

 

[diamondjim]

I would recommend that you find a surveyor
that you trust or have him sign a statement
of confidentiality. You can send him a
pdf file or dwg file. The alternative is
to remove all of the things from the drawing
that you do not want him to see and rename it
or wblock all of the things you want him to
see and send him the wblock drawing under a
new name.

 

[uteengineering]

Unfortunately I am forced to work with this Surveyor who I do not trust. What I did was wblock the viewports and insert these blocks into a save as of the original drawing with nothing in it but the layouts. Then i erased all the layouts but the one that I had w-blocked. So essentially I created a new dwg for every page of my plans. This took some time, but I beleive it was worth the piece of mind. Thank you all for your help

 

[queque]

I am new to draftng issues but I think some confidentiality concerns must always be present.

If you can provide him with the basic information needed, a basic outline should suffice.

A new drawing with the goodies erased should suffice?

 

[tinfoil]

We tend to send one or more .pdf files.
Easy to do + widely accepted standard.
Done to scale.
Not much more use than a hardcopy if he wants to 'borrow' information from it.

However, to get consistent quality, you shoudl purchase ($$) a legal copy of Adobe Acrobat rather than relying on 3rd party printer drivers to make the .pdfs

 

[LECmeasurement]

Delete the information that you do not want him to have, save it as a different file name. Easy as that...

If you don't want him to have the model, then .pdf export the layouts.

Go to download.com find a .pdf virtual printer driver, and your done.

Regards,
Ross

 

[borgunit]

One last input...maybe. We use the pdf method with PDF995 (freeware) to create pdf files from drawings. The user probably has or can get Acrobat Reader for free and the files are basically untouchable. Going to all the trouble you are going through seems like a waste of time. So I confer with the last few posts.Good luck.

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers