RE: need 2d stata floorplans in DXF format

[Greg Knight <GKnight@PLANT.MIT.EDU>]

seth... i wanted to send you one sample file before i sent you the entire
bunch...  turns out these files are HUGE...  15MB drawing files... and 45MB
dxf files...  i cant compress even one of them enough to send them via
email... do you have a server with some credentials where i can drop it?

greg

-----Original Message-----
From: Seth Teller [mailto:teller@csail.mit.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 10:07 AM
To: Greg Knight
Cc: David Silverman; bmg
Subject: Re: need 2d stata floorplans in DXF format



greg,

i think we can do a considerable amount with the unstructured
plans.  please send them along to me and to "bmg@graphics" (you
can reply-all to this message) when you can.  patrick is doing
his MEng this term only on this project, so the sooner you can
get us the data, the better.  (he will make it work for most
other MIT buildings, but we're really excited about making it
work for stata to help all the confused inhabitants and visitors
find their way around.)

if you have layers containing space names and office numbers
or any info of that type, please send it as well.  even if it
is just unstructured collections of labels, we can work with
it using our current tools i think.

yes, as the more structured plans become available, please send
those as well, and we will incorporate them.

seth.

Greg Knight wrote:
 > David,
 >
 > I can convert them for Seth... BUT...  They wont be in the structure that
 > Seth wants until we clean them up... Which as you know will be no trivial
 > matter...  Our absolute deadline for this is January when the building is
 > scheduled to be occupied... If we get the latest plans the architect has
 > polylined, this could happen in the next month or two if things go
well...
 >
 > Seth,
 >
 > Does it help if I convert the un-structured plans to DXF in the interim?
 >
 > Greg
 >
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: David Silverman [mailto:DSilverm@PLANT.MIT.EDU]
 > Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 7:10 PM
 > To: 'Seth Teller'
 > Cc: Greg Knight
 > Subject: RE: need 2d stata floorplans in DXF format
 >
 >
 > Seth,
 >
 > I'll track down the appropriate CAD floor plans.
 >
 > Greg, if I give you these files can you do the appropriate conversion for
 > Seth?
 >
 > David
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Seth Teller [mailto:teller@csail.mit.edu]
 > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 1:10 PM
 > To: David Silverman
 > Cc: Greg Knight
 > Subject: need 2d stata floorplans in DXF format
 >
 >
 >
 > david,
 >
 > we'd like to put together a "you are here" and
 > route-finding app on big displays near the stata
 > entries, so that visitors can walk up to the
 > display, indicate a destination (or person, group,
 > lab etc.) in the building, and see a display of a
 > good route to that destination.  (perhaps even get
 > a printout if we can put a public printer there.)
 >
 > we have all the pieces we need to do this except
 > the stata floorplans.  our current algorithms
 > use the MIT DXF floorplans posted on the DOF web
 > site.  any chance we can get stata floorplans in
 > the same format with similar structure ?
 >
 > thanks,
 >
 > seth.
 >
 > ps cc'ing greg knight as well.
 >