Topic: Keep coordinates in tact

[Mark]

Is there a way to lock a .dwg's coordinate system in place (make it read-only) to keep someone from moving it? Lets say we give someone a dwg to place in their GIS system but we don't won't them to change the coord system.

thanks

[mjfarrell]

Is there a way to lock a .dwg's coordinate system in place (make it read-only) to keep someone from moving it? Lets say we give someone a dwg to place in their GIS system but we don't won't them to change the coord system.

thanks

None that I am aware of.

Once the "GIS Manager" gets his grubby hands on your data; it's just you might as well be Heisenberg.

If the issue is them modifying the data and sending it back to you, all moshed up without warning.
Don't use their version(s)

Unless you were to fire up something like Map Guide Server, and serve them the data then you stand a better chance.
Or a read Only folder somewhere for their special selves to use to query in your data.

[Mark]

Is there a way to lock a .dwg's coordinate system in place (make it read-only) to keep someone from moving it? Lets say we give someone a dwg to place in their GIS system but we don't won't them to change the coord system.

thanks

None that I am aware of.

Yeah I couldn't think of any thing either but I had to ask.

[M-dub]

A giant note across the drawing on a no-plot layer, telling people not to touch it!

[Mark]

A giant note across the drawing on a no-plot layer, telling people not to touch it!

Well they're sucking the data into their GIS system so I don't think that would work.

[LE3]

i think that know why you want to avoid that, per this - my guess:
http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2008/01/converting-a-drawings-coordinate-system/#

[mjfarrell]

i think that know why you want to avoid that, per this - my guess:
http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2008/01/converting-a-drawings-coordinate-system/#

The article is wrong, C3D Parcels, etc about not wanting to be 'moved with MAP' truth is MAP will NOT even touch the objects he claims to be affected by it.  It's been broken that way for years starting with Point Objects in Land Desktop, and Getting worse with the release of C3D Objects.

sound like the issue is the GIS person doesn't understand the nature of GIS and assigning Coordinate Systems to working and Source files such that a Query Operation results in the Coordinate transformation occurring FOR THAT MAPPING session ONLY. Without ever actually converting (altering, corrupting) the source file.