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I am working with SSM. All is well for most sheets however some have No. or the need for a '#'. The auto index table is falling apart when punctuation is in the [NAME] blank. Does anyone know of a setting to change this behavoir or is it another limitation of ADSK software? See attached.
how are the characters in the layout name interfering with drawing number and sheet title? I do not see punctuation marks in DWGNo or the Sheet title. these should e distinct in the dst database. I see the NO.3 now.
there has always been a few characters not permitted in drawing title. Reason being SSM is set up to thing the drawing title is the files name by default and most characters not permitted in file names are in that list. periods seem tricky since window kind of got past that. there may be a unicode character you can substitute
In your images it appears you have not updated the list since editing the sheet number and sheet titles of the two erroneous sheets. If you have, make sure the sheet table is pointing to the correct sheet set. The easiest way is to change a sheet number in SM, update the link and see if it changes. Also make sure the cells in the sheet list are still content locked. The dwg with the index may also be corrupted or damaged, try recovering, not auditing the drawing.
The pound/number symbol does have some issues with SSM. If used in the sheet number or sheet title fields (probably any added column/fields also) it puts the file name and sheet name, preceded by a period (.) separated by dash and comma (-,) in the sheet index list.
As a follow up. I can now get the periods to work without issue. I had to retype the name and it worked just fine. This is a BIM (c4c3d)project. The issues were associated with sheets that another firm added. Maybe they were pasting the names from an excel sheet or something....who knows.
In this case, Phillips & Jordan, Inc. ("P & J"), challenges an affirmative action program administered by the Florida Department of Transportation ("FDOT"). Specifically, P & J contends that FDOT's practice of setting aside certain highway maintenance contracts for black and Hispanic-owned businesses violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The parties have stipulated that P & J a non-minority business has been excluded in the past, and may be excluded in the future, from competing for certain highway maintenance contracts set aside for business enterprises owned by Hispanic and African American individuals.
Before the court at this time is P & J's motion for summary judgment (doc. 46). The defendant, Ben G. Watts ("Watts"), in his official capacity as Secretary of FDOT, has responded (doc. 56) in opposition to the motion; the court has heard the oral arguments of counsel; and the parties have been advised (doc. 60) that the motion would be taken under advisement as of a date certain.
Under Florida law, upon a showing of past and/or continuing discrimination in statefunded highway projects, FDOT is authorized to implement programs designed to remedy disparities based upon race, national origin, or gender. Fla. Stat. 339.0805(1) (b). FDOT may establish annual goals for expending a percentage of state-administered highway funds with small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals and to that end may set aside contracts for competition only among disadvantaged business enterprises. Id. FDOT's authority to utilize goals and set-asides is limited, however, to those situations where "significant disparity" has been documented at least in part through the findings of a disparity study conducted or updated by FDOT or its designee at a minimum of every five years. Id. A "significant disparity" means "a disparity index (the ratio of the percentage utilization to the percentage availability times 100) below 80." Fla. Admin. Code r. 14-78.004(3) (c).
In 1991, pursuant to section 339.0805, FDOT hired MGT of America, Inc. ("MGT"), to conduct a disparity study, one *1310 purpose of which was to document the existence of any past and/or continuing discrimination involving contracts for state-funded road maintenance projects. MGT collected both statistical data regarding the availability and utilization of minority-owned business enterprises for FDOT highway projects as well as anecdotal evidence regarding the perceptions and experiences of both minority and non-minority businesses in bidding and working on such projects. For purposes of data collection, MGT established a two-year study period covering fiscal years 1989/90 and 1990/91. The relevant market area was defined as all counties within the State of Florida plus all counties outside the State of Florida whose firms were awarded contract dollars totaling 0.5% or more of overall contract dollars over the study period.
MGT's estimate of total firms available to perform road maintenance work was based on the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns, an annual publication that reports the total number of business establishments by state, by county, and by standard industrial classification. MGT's estimate of available black and Hispanic-owned businesses in the relevant market area was based on the Census Bureau's 1982 and 1987 Surveys of Minority Owned Business Enterprises ("SMOBE"). Produced every five years, the SMOBE identifies numbers of minority-owned business enterprises ("MBEs") by county, ethnic classification, gender, and standard industrial classification.
Business establishments are assigned standard industrial classification ("SIC") codes based on business activity. Two, three, and four-digit SIC codes are used to identify related business groups. As the codes go from two to three to four digits, the groups become progressively more specific. For example, SIC Code 07 represents the major group, "Agricultural Services." SIC Code 078 represents the sub-group, "Landscaping and Horticulture Services." SIC Code 0782, "Lawn and Garden Services," represents a sub-set of sub-group 078.
MGT did not identify what different subgroups were encompassed within the selected two and three-digit codes. It also did not explain why it selected a combination of two, three, and four-digit codes or how it determined that all businesses included in the codes particularly the two and three-digit codeswere "available" to bid on road maintenance contracts.
Using census figures, MGT determined that, in calendar year 1989, there were 61,098 firms in the relevant market area that listed themselves as being in businesses classified in one or more of MGT's seven selected SIC groups.[1] Of those 61,098 firms, 2,605 were owned by blacks and 5,015 were owned by Hispanics. For the calendar year 1990, the census revealed a total of 65,665 firms in the seven SIC groups in the relevant market area. Blacks and Hispanics respectively owned 2,838 and 5,517 of those 65,665 firms.
MGT assumed that a much higher percentage of local, or Florida-based firms, would be ready, willing, and able to bid on FDOT projects than would firms from counties outside of Florida. To account for this assumed difference between in and out-of-state firms, MGT weighted the number of Florida-based and non-Florida-based firms by their respective proportion of the total firms that were awarded FDOT contracts during the study period. The weighted number of firms in Florida and in counties outside Florida were totaled, and the percentage for each minority classification was calculated to determine the weighted availability for each year. MGT thus determined that black-owned firms accounted for 4.05% of the total number of weighted available maintenance firms for fiscal year ("FY") 1989/90 and 4.10% of the *1311 total in FY 1990/91. Hispanic-owned firms accounted for 8.90% of the total number of weighted available maintenance firms for FY 1989/90 and 9.08% of the total in FY 1990/91.
The operations of FDOT are organized into eight districts, including a turnpike district, each headed by a district secretary. For the time period covered by this study, district offices were authorized to award construction and maintenance contracts up to a limit of $250,000. Contracts for projects in excess of $250,000 were awarded by the Central Office.
To calculate utilization rates, MGT collected data regarding the contract dollars awarded to minority firms by FDOT's district and central offices during the two fiscal years selected as the study period. During FY 1989/90, FDOT's central office awarded two maintenance contracts to firms in the relevant market area. Neither of the two centrally-let contracts was awarded to a black or Hispanic-owned business. During FY 1990/91, no maintenance contracts were let by the central office. The total dollar value of centrally-let maintenance contracts during the study period was $1,068,916.00, all of which was awarded to firms owned by white men.
During the same time period, the eight district offices awarded a total of 521 maintenance contracts for a total of $42,772,787.00. These contracts ranged in price from a low of $2,184.50 to a high of $623,844.00. Of the district-let contracts, 479 were awarded to prime contractors and 42 were awarded to subcontractors. The 42 contracts awarded to subcontractors accounted for less than 1% of all contract dollars awarded. According to the manager of the FDOT's Minority Programs Office, Ruth Dillard, the vast majority of road maintenance contracts do not lend themselves to subcontracts. The prime contractors, that is, do most, if not all, of the work.
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