MAC version 3 non functioning DWG/DXF export?
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We tested using other CAD products, but unless it failed in AutoCAD or TrueView (Autodesk products), we didn't consider it a bug. I contacted one 3rd party vendor when I saw that things were OK in AutoCAD but not in their product (thinking I'd do them a favor), and one of their engineers responded back with incorrect assumptions that I was talking 3D (thinking SketchUp, not LayOut), and sent me hence this long incorrect explanation. OK, I tried. It wasn't the company you mentioned, but it doesn't surprise me that something might be off in some products (other than Autodesk products).
Fills are off by default. Again, take a close look at the export panel: "Ignore Fills" is checked, meaning you'll get no fills. We're assuming people would export this for vector lines for ACAD. You'll have to ask the right questions of you client to get the right combination.
b
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TrueView, as should be expected, is a windows-only application. for mac, as far as I know, eDrawings (by solidworks) is the only dwg/dxf viewer available.
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Edson,
Two more here;
DWG Viewer | Easy to use AutoCAD DWG viewer for mac | Microspot Ltd.
Open, View, Annotate and export your AutoCAD DWG files as PDF on your Mac.
(www.microspot.co.uk)
and
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Shark FX is actually a demo. You get 30 days of trial, then you can't save anything. But it will carry on working as an excellent DXG/DXF viewer. Shark is also built on ACIS, and has 3D capabilities.
While not a viewer, Rhino is still in beta, and can also be had as an excellent 3D viewer for many files including AutoCAD's.
So 3 more perhaps?
Tom
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thanks, tom. it always good to have more options.
regards.
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Some friends at Vectorworks also gave us a copy, so we'll run tests through that. But again, the final arbiter is AutoCAD.
b
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Note too that if your Layout viewports are set to raster (or hybrid) rendering, the exporter creates a separate raster image that is xref'd into the resulting DWG file. I wonder if all DWG viewers are able to display xrefs or inserted raster images.
Anssi
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One more thing; if you explode a SU model in LO, when in raster mode, you get an editable image file, in vector mode you get an editable vector set (and can change line weights and such) and when in hybrid mode, you get both.
Obviously hybrid mode gives you the best possibilities however I can imagine it is the most resource hungry mode as well.
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I am afraid I must return to this topic as I am following barry's suggestions but cannot export to dwg/dxf. I have tried to open the resulting files with edrawing, microspot's dwg viewer and vectorworks. nothing appears in any of them.
chuck: are you having any luck with exports from LO?
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the dwg export was not working for me because I did not have my models set to vector in LO. after changing that it worked. text does not export 100% correct but the problems are minimal.
as for reading the files, no dwg reader was able to read the files correctly. I had to download and install an educational version of autocad to check on them and make sure they were ok.
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Edson,
The default format is dwg2010 and there are a bunch of CAD apps which cannot read that yet. Export as dwg 2007 and you will have better results.
As for the text - is that some unicode characters for Portuguese?
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csaba,
I did export in autocad 2000 format and it still would not appear well in those readers. but in autocad it was ok. as much as I dislike autocad, it is no big deal to have it installed to check on my exports.
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Hi Edson, check your PM's, please.
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I can't figure out what isn't working as expected, but, I too, also have difficulties with getting the dwg/dxf exports to work in the readers.
I have no access to Autocad, but I know that the dwgs I sent to a local engineer was exhibiting weirdness in his autocad. Text was coming in as hatching blocks was the most annoying, and finally not solved, issue.
I kind of gave up and did no further experimenting
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@unknownuser said:
I can't figure out what isn't working as expected, but, I too, also have difficulties with getting the dwg/dxf exports to work in the readers.
I have no access to Autocad, but I know that the dwgs I sent to a local engineer was exhibiting weirdness in his autocad. Text was coming in as hatching blocks was the most annoying, and finally not solved, issue.
I kind of gave up and did no further experimenting
chuck,
following barry's suggestions, I changed my LO pages to vector mode and exported them to model space. it worked fine, with minor text problems.
if you like, send me your exported dwgs and I will open them with acad.
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