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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:53:50 EST
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- From: MR A D JONES <ajones@METZ.UNE.EDU.AU>
- Subject: Re: FTP
- In-Reply-To: <199212211852.AA03273@metz.une.edu.au>; from "Loki" at Dec 21,
- 92 4:49 pm
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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
- >
- Paul,
-
- I had the same problem here.
-
- My solution was to find a micro with Autocad Version 11, read in the DXF file,
- and then write it back out as a DXF file. This was the situation with PC
- Arc/Info which looked for Autocad Version 11 format files. I do not
- know if the same applies to work stations. The format of various data sets
- change from one version to another and it takes time for other vendors to catch
- up. In some cases thay are even ahead. I hope it works.
-
- Alan Jones
- Geography & Planning
- University of New England
- Armidale
- NSW 2351 Australia
-