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- From: Loki <APM9@VAXA.YORK.AC.UK>
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- Hi everybody...
-
- For those of you that have not disappeared already for Christmas, here is a
- little problem to keep you busy...
-
- Here at the Department of Archaeology (University of York, UK) we are
- trying to transfer a DXF file from AutoCAD 10 running on a PC to ARC/INFO 5.x
- running on SGI machines...
-
- This is an operation that has been carried out many times, without problem,
- but for some reason we have come up against a problem with one file.
-
- In the long standing tradition of software companies, AutoDesk deny all
- knowledge of any problem. They insist it MUST be my fault, but of course
- can't tell me where I am going wrong! Any thoughts from the network
- appreciated!
-
- The file in question is about 1Mb as a .dwg, growing to nearly 3Mb as an
- ASCII dxf file. It DOES read back in to AutoCAD OK, but will NOT read in to
- ARC/INFO.
-
- The file was transferred to the SGI machines using Kermit (as we always do)
- in BINARY form. When I ran DXFINFO from within ARC, the following was received:
-
- EOF encountered on [filename]
-
- LAYER NAME ARCS POINTS TEXT ATTRIB INSERT etc etc
- ----------- ---- ------ ---- ------ ----- --------------------
- ----------- ----- ------ ---- ------ ----- -----------------------
-
- ALL LAYERS 0 0 0 0 0 etc etc
-
-
- I have tried this transfer several times, but without success. Other (very
- similar) files transfer perfectly happily using exactly the same techniques...
-
- WHAT might be the problem with THIS file? Is it soluble? What ever happened to
- pen and paper? We must be nuts using GIS...
-
-
- MERRY CHRISTMAS!
-
- Paul Miller
- Department of Archaeology apm9@vaxa.york.ac.uk
- University of York +44 904 636731 ext 38
- Micklegate House
- 88 Micklegate
- YORK
- YO1 1JZ
- UK
-