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VersaCAD Tips, Tricks and News. CPL Programing and other CAD-musings. This Blog is Independently maintained by Jim Longley with no affiliation to VersaCAD or Archway. See "Introduction" at bottom. =:-} AutoCAD Paperspace and Viewports While VersaCAD'a drawing translator does a fine job of converting DWG to .2d there are some real world shortcomings. AutoCAD's Paperspace, Viewports, and X-References. Is there a work around if you wish to receive and work on/use dwg's with these features? Yes - providing the 'sender' is cooperative that is. By and large what you want from the AutoCAD user is the drawing - drawing in the sense of what one would otherwise see as the print output document. The paperspace layout (- AutoCAD speak) - the "printed page" as-it-were can be produced from AutoCAD in a form YOU can use. And, as such, it will contain the "drawing" as the draftperson intended the recipent to see - complete with X-Refernces (including clipped ones at that). How can this be accomplished? The AutoCAD used must install the AutoCAD DXB plotter. (And there's part of the rub) If the ACAD user knows what they are doing - no problem. DXB (drawing interchange binary) file formats are supported using the DXB nonsystem file driver. This is commonly used to "flatten" 3D drawings to 2D. Or, in our case, to project so-to-speak, the paperspace layout, viewports and all on to a "flat" drawing. The AutoCAD user, having created... er... plotted a DXB file, they then need to issue the DXBIN command in a blank drawing. They Save this drawing in an AutoCAD 2000 format and send to you. What you get on translation, is a complete representation of the AutoCAD drawing's Paperspace layout, except.... Ah yes, "Except". All objects will be on one level, one colour. Text will not be text, but the indivudual line strokes. At least you - the VersaCAD user - now have a starting point of a Viewport instensive, X-Reference filled AutoCAD Drawing in YOUR VersaCAD Program.
Posted by: versacad at March 01, 2005 20:07 |
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