MAC PowerCAD > AutoCAD conversions

Hello there,

I work for a company that uses AutoCAD 2002 to do all our work.
Unfortunately we have some visiting designers that use PowerCAD on Macs. We
have tried getting the designers to export the drawings from the macs as
..DWG files, however somewhere it all goes wrong. Whilst the files always
look fine on the mac, on a PC in AutoCAD they are very blocky and don't
display or print correctly.

If anyone has come across this problem before and can offer some advise it
would be fab.

We also have a HP DesignJET500, and would like to print from Macs. HP says
that the printer does not support macs however there may be conversion
software available. Again if anyone can help it would be great.

Thanks in advance

Tim

 

Conversions from one CAD program to another are often (usually) less than
smooth. A program being able to save as a different format doesn't mean
much. A lot often gets lost in the translation. There is not much you can do
about it other than mess around with different formats. As for printing, you
can always print to PDF and plot from that. A two step process but it works.

 

I thought PowerCAD ran on PC's?

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