Dean, for lack of a more elegant solution, I would create a dup finder macro. I have never tried this but you ought to be able to write a macro that A) starts with the first element B) gets the properties of the element and stores them in variables. C) checks every element of the same type to see if it has the same start, end, length, radius etc. D) when a duplicate is found it assigns it to another layer, if third, fourth and etc., dups are found they would go on separate layers too. The goal is to avoid having any duplicates on any one layer.
The only problem I see with this is that, the larger your database, the more comparisons need to be made. Hence, if there are a lot of elements, it could take some time to run. One solution to this problem would be to group and area with a box or range, then just compare the elements in the group. Just my thoughts. . .I could be wrong. David Hayden Elliott Turbomachinery ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================
