I'd like some advice please
I have just picked up a "set" of drawings produced by a summer placement, who having done one course of CAD at uni, were left unsupervised whilst producing the drawings. Now they have left, and I have to start amending these drawings, to take into account the clients wishes and engineers re-design.
Many of these drawings have the same objects in the drawing... but are in fact stored as live objects in each drawing, there have been NO xrefs used. To make things more complex, the "base" scale on some of the drawing sheets are different to others and the information (building outline, and all the inners of the building) on the larger scale drawings have been removed/trimmed back and moved to a different 0,0 so the building wont even "tile" together. And instead of changing one or two xrefs, if I continue using the drawings as they are, I have many drawings to alter with the same information.
One of my thoughts are to create a building outline and use it as a base xref, then assemble the drawings from this base...
So my question to you fine folks...
Is it wise to carry on using the original drawings, or would it be better to assemble new cad files? (If the latter, how would I justify that with "the powers that be")
What would you do in this situation?
Many thanks for any advice
T