monksjm wrote:We received an MDB file. Is there a way to create linework from the mdb file?
This is most likely what ESRI terms a "personal geodatabase" which is the single database equivalent of a shapefile (set of files including .SHP, .IDX, .DBF which is a DBase format database file, .PRJ, etc.).
The .MDB will contain everything that is normally contained in the older shapefile format, but to use it you need someone with ArcMAP to load it and resave to shapefile format. Then you will need all the associated files that go along with the shapefile, not just the .SHP file.
Good luck.