One of the many issues we face when dealing with importing DWG data from third parties (other than the sheer mess we are asked to work with) is the endless number of duplicate classes caused by autocad prefixing the layer (i.e. class) name with the xref name, separated by the $ character.
There may be multiple files, but the underlying classes are the same, e.g.
ABC4L4$0$PL-SANW-AR
ABC4L5$0$PL-SANW-AR
ABC4L6$0$PL-SANW-AR
etc
Of course, none of the above classes are compliant as a result, but that does not seem to matter if you use Autodesk products...
It would be very useful if we had an option to remove the file name prefix on import of a DWG.
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One of the many issues we face when dealing with importing DWG data from third parties (other than the sheer mess we are asked to work with) is the endless number of duplicate classes caused by autocad prefixing the layer (i.e. class) name with the xref name, separated by the $ character.
There may be multiple files, but the underlying classes are the same, e.g.
ABC4L4$0$PL-SANW-AR
ABC4L5$0$PL-SANW-AR
ABC4L6$0$PL-SANW-AR
etc
Of course, none of the above classes are compliant as a result, but that does not seem to matter if you use Autodesk products...
It would be very useful if we had an option to remove the file name prefix on import of a DWG.
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