importing .wmf files into autocad

[Betty J Whitehead]

I have a third party program that I need to import into autocad in a
.wmf format. Some of the files come in fine, and other ones have
information missing. The third party vender says it is a problem with
acad 14. Anyone have any suggestions or know of another way to import
these files?

[Todd Carpenter]

Betty,

Hope this isn't redundant information. You may try a couple of things to
see if your package is indeed doing what it is supposed to do:
1. Type "WMFOPTS" at the AutoCAD command line and try adjusting those

settings to see if your missing information appears.
2. You may try changing your background color, sometimes the entities
are there
they just happen to be the same color as your background.
3. Finally, if none of this works, try importing the WMF file into
word, excel, etc.
If they are not coming in properly here either, it's a fairly
safe bet your third party
package isn't doing their conversions correctly. If they do come
in O.K. in one
of these packages, try exporting them from one of these (i.e.
saveas), and then
bring them into AutoCAD.
4. If worse comes to worse, from your third party package, you can do
an alt+print
screen, this will take the active windows application and place
its image on the
clipboard, you could then paste it into AutoCAD and trace it, or
leave it as a
bit map.

Hope this helps.

Todd Carpenter
CAD Systems Administrator
ABB Flexible Automation

[Kim Doubek]

Betty - What 3rd party program are the WMF files coming from? What type
of entities are missing? Did you explode the WMF file after importing it
into AutoCAD to see what happens?

If you place a copy of the WMF file in the Autodesk.AutoCAD.customer-files
section I will take a look at it.

Regards,
--
Kim D
Product Support, US
WW Support & Services, Autodesk
Discussion Q&A: http://www.autodesk.com/discussion

[David Hinojosa]

Hello,

This is not exactly the same case, but... check it out, please.

We are using an HP ScanJet 5100C scanner that automatically vectorizes
scanned drawings and save them in Windows metafile format (wmf).

The size of the wmf files is convenient, but when I import the file to
AutoCAD 14, the resulting dwg file is almost ten times bigger. Why?

For example, a wmf of 62K result in an dwg file of 560K.

Thanks in advance,

David Hinojosa

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[Kim Doubek]

David - WMF contain both vector information and raster information which
makes them rather complex. They can be scaled and printed without loss of
resolution. Imported WMFs will increase the DWG file size quite a bit.

Regards,

--
Kim D
Product Support, US
WW Support & Services, Autodesk
Discussion Q&A: http://www.autodesk.com/discussion

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[David Hinojosa]

Dear Kim,

If imported WMFs increase the DWG file size, Can you suggest me a way to
speed the process of digitalize a printed drawing using a scanner?

Is the WMF file format a common standard? Or this behavior depends on the
WMF implementation?
Let's say you have to add a printed drawing to a DWG file in AutoCAD and you
don't have the time to redraw it. You have a scanner. What would you do?

Can we use another vector file format, instead of WMF, to import my drawing
to AutoCAD?

Thanks a lot, Kim, and regards,

David

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