importing acad dwg

[oilman]

Hi All

I have been trying to import an acad drawing into FM pro 6 and so for have had no luck in doing so. I have tried save the drawing into a program that called openoffice. This is suppose to be an share ware program to take the place of Excel. Could someone suggest to me how to import this drawing or suggest the software needed. Thanks in advance

Lionel

[jasonwood]

Can you save the drawing as a standard image format such as bmp, pict, jpg, etc?

[LiveOak]

If you intent is just to display a drawing in a contain field within FM, the ability to export into a format compatible with FM's import capabilities will do the trick. If you wish to store files in FM for later use in acad, once imported there will be no way to convert back to a drawing file.

What are you trying to do (the big picture)?

-bd

[oilman]

Hey Guys

Thanks for the reply. Sorry for the lack of details.

Jason, autocad had a one time the options to save a drawing to a jpg image but it seems like that options have been removed. Would dump the drawing into Paint shop and save as an gif. or a jpg. but the resolution were not good in FM.

LiveOak, I want to draw Weld joint details in autocad and insert these drawing in a global field formatted as a container and repeating fields. Then attached a value list with a script to insert the joint design in the welding form that the user chooses from the value list.

[RodinBangkok]

Probably you best option is to print to pdf and then import the file reference, not the entire pdf. Reason for this is the same problem you are seeing with the pic file, that of output resolution once imported. If you need to print you can use the reference to go to the original file for a better resolution printing, while still having screen resolution images available.

[oilman]

Thanks RodinBangkok for the information.

Since the form is reviewed oftened for changes, i would like the joint details to show. The details consist of a few lines at most.

Lionel

[BobWeaver]

If you could convert the drawing to a vector based graphics format, that would probably be best. On a Mac that would be a pict file. I don't know if PC's have anything equivalent.

[oilman]

Thanks all for the information.

Brought a copy of Visio and drew the joint details in it and save them as a GIF file.

Lionel

[BobWeaver]

Anything is better than AutoCad IMHO.