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Your 1st mistake is relying on architects drawings. Architects, despite having access to CAD programs, couldnt draw a straight line if their lives depended upon it. Furthermore always check theyre on one plane. Do a view 'left' on a plan to confirm one plane. Additionally architects, the useless halfwits, dont realise that the CAD program has 'snaps'. As far as they are concerned if it looks ok when printed thats fine. Architects are not what they used to be, my grandfather was one and he understood bending moments etc. This lot think that means theyve dropped something.

Anyways. Always trace your building using their crap GA's as a guide. Floor by floor. Start with perimeter, then single line partitions. I explode ga's and put them on one layer and purge all the other rubbish. I then trace the ga adding MY snap points. All on a different layer. When I bring it into ies, i freeze the ga layer, leaving my simple traced GA. All my walls will line up and all my snaps will have been sorted. Be prepared to have your dxf open in cad to adjust as you go along. Then you should have no adjacency etc problems.

Never trust architects information. Theyre a bunch of plums.

After I had similar problems with adjancies and what nots, I started snapping to modelit grid rather than the dxf import, using the drawing only as a guide to where the walls start and end. You don't loose much accuracy doing that, and it makes the model look a lot cleaner!