Importing landscape format .dxf/.dwg files get cropped

[Al Edlund]

Visio allows an either/or (landscape or portrait), it does not support mixed
page formats.
al
"Ron M" <anon...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Whenever I try to open or insert a landscape format .dxf or .dwg drawing
Visio
> always crops it to a portrait size image. I have tried everything and have
not been
> able to get this to work.

[Ron M.]

Sorry I do not understand. It seems to make no difference how the blank page is defined. I am not trying to mix formats. The page is defined as landscape. The input file is landscape. Visio only shows the input file in portrait. Try it. Take a landscape format .dxf file and insert it into a landscape blank document. The image is cropped. In ay case when using the open file command (instead of insert) the page format is not defined at that point. Visio still forces a cropped portrait version of the file. The CAD drawing box shows the CAD drawing in portrait format even though the drawing is in landscape format. Nothing in the dialog box settings seems to affect this.

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[Randall Arnold]

Actually, my landscape DXFs and DWGs have all come in oriented fine, so this
is not universal. Can you email me your DXF file so I can try it?

Randall Arnold

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[Mark Nelson [MS]]

Are you using Visio 2002? That version of Visio always displays the last
saved view of the CAD drawing rather than the full extents. This is not the
case in Visio 2003.

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