AutoCAD and Word

I need to export my drawings from ACad to Word for technical documentation
but with different line thickness. If I change background from black to
white and simply copy all the lines, it is ok, but all lines have same
thickness. The way I'm using ACad is to draw all the lines with same
thickness (in differant layers and colours), and when i want to plot, I say
plot this colour with that thickness. Is there any solution? I ried with
some expor formats, but picture quality was low.

Thanks,
B. sc. Goran Dolenec

R&D department of
MB Frigo refrigeration
Croatia

 

hello,

I had the same problem also some time ago. One solution is to install the
driver of a Postscript-printer (you don't need any PS-printer for this
task). Choose the PS-printer in the plot setup and mark the checkbox "plot
to file". The software will generate a Postscript file which you can later
open and convert with Ghostview (a tool free available on the net) to a
proper format to include in your Word document.

The results with these method are much better than any export method I ever
tried out from AutoCAD. You can also generate PDF-files that way BTW.

Regards
Roman

 

If you plot your drawings 'to file' to a PostScript printer driver, or
export them to EPS using EPSOUT, you can use our ps2vector software to
batch convert them to EMF for scalable and editable import into MS
Word, retaining line thicknesses.

ps2vector is available in desktop, server and developer configurations
on Windows, Linux and UNIX platforms. Other vector output formats
include industry-standard CGM, XML-standard SVG, MIF for FrameMaker,
HPGL and more. See URL below for details.

Jeroen Dekker
--
Square One - The Graphics Connection
Visit http://www.square1.nl/index.htm

 

I enjoy BetterWMF.

 

I enjoy BetterWMF.

No need. Better WMF will remove the background.