u/enviromac

Hello everyone,

I’m a survey CAD tech and I just used layer states for the first time and I think it messed up my edits.

Basically what happened was I created a layer state for all things boundary/easements and another for all layers that I would want to plot (same as the other but plus utilities, improvements, etc). I spent the morning working in the easements layer state then had to switch gears and clean up linework so I switched to the plot layer state. I saved throughout. I made a save as drawing to prep to send to the engineer, and when I went back to the original drawing and went back to the easements layer states, I noticed almost all my easements edits were gone. All the linework edits I made were still there, so it wasn’t a save issue. I also looked at the save-as drawing and saw the easement edits weren’t there either.

I am not convinced it’s a layer state issue, because many of the edits I made after creating the layer state were still there, but not all of them. I just don’t know what else it could be. I’ve been drafting for almost 4 years and never experienced anything like this. Using layer states is the only thing that’s different today from any other day.

Note: I updated C3D yesterday so everything should be up to date.

What the heck is going on 😭

I live north of Colfax near Colfax and Carr. Looking at the map, it looks like the route goes completely around my block. We’ll be out of town but we have cat sitters coming to take care of our kitties. (I don’t wanna hear it about how cats can be left alone for days at a time we don’t do that!! Too many sudden medical emergencies in our past to trust that they’ll be ok alone for >12 hours.) Is there really no way to get through the loop that goes around Colfax/20th/Pierce/Glen drives? Seems crazy and potentially dangerous to keep people in/out of that area for 8+ hours.