SLDDRW - to - Vector Image (Again!!!)
3D-Don
concerning this issue. I'm going to keep beating this dead horse
until SolidWorks does something about it or they pull my licence.
Here is the most recent enhancement request that I just posted to
SolidWorks.
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I have been putting up with the lack of ability to export a scalable
drawing (for import into a Word document) from SolidWorks for over 3
years now! It use to be that it was possible to export a DXF file and
then import that directly into MS Word. But that's not possible
anymore because Microsoft does not support AutoDesk file formats
anymore.
CATI Support suggested that I OLE the file into the Word document.
Ok, great. Problem is the file size becomes huge and if there are any
added Excel spreadsheets in the SolidWorks drawing, they will not show
up in the Word document! So that doesn't work!
Ok, what about a TIFF file? Nope! It isn't scalable. And if I jack
the resolution way up, once it's imported into the Word document, it
is viewable, but again, the file size is through the roof! With a
lower resolution, small text looks more like bird droppings than text!
Exporting out an EPS file has been hit and miss, and lately it's been
more miss than hit. I have wasted more than enough time tring to
figure out the master sequence of settings to export such a file!
It's not worth it! I have work to do!
At what point in time are you guys going to finally write the BLASTED
code to export a WMF file?!?!?! I've heard the excuses before that
SolidWorks has no intention of doing such a thing. Why not? AutoCAD
can do it! Do I need to go back to AutoCAD?!?!?! As it stand right
now, that's my only option - export the SolidWorks drawing file as an
AutoCAD DWG, open the DWG in AutoCAD (on a different machine) and then
save it as a WMF. Then I go back to my computer, open the Word
document and import the WMF file! Talk about an almost total waste of
time! This has been the SOP for the past 3+ years and I'm getting
real tired of it! Come on guys, do something already!!!
Check your records, this isn't the first time that I've
asked/complained about this. Go check out comp.cad.solidworks,
Cadsense, or even your own forum. This issue keeps coming up, time
and time again and not only from myself, but many others as well.
In the mean time, I'll have my employeer purchase another seat of
AutoCAD for myself so that I can be somewhat productive! Make sure
you send Autodesk a thank you note for my purchase.
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Don
TT
document? I have done that a lot for writing manuals and such.
There is also a good program called "snagit", do a search on google.
TT
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Mr. Pickles
but I have done this:
With SW open, I save the drawing as a TIFF (I used TIFF 'cause it is
scaleable in DPI from the SaveAs Options button). I then open it with a FREE
program called IRFANVIEW (http://www.irfanview.com) and have Irfanview save
it as an Enhanced Meta File (EMF) that gets stuck into M$ Word (Word does
EMF's). Irfanview is basically an image viewer, but it does some other
stuff, and is a pretty small footprint. it reads a lot of different formats,
and can save in a few too.
Doesn't do much different, but it eliminates the AutoCAD step on a different
PC in your case, and it is faster than loading ACAD. Also, in case you
wondered, I use Irfanview to also capture screen images, as what it captures
is somewhat selectable.
Mike J. Wilson
> It used to be that it was possible to export a DXF file
> and then import that directly into MS Word.
You still can.
> But that's not possible anymore because Microsoft does
> not support AutoDesk file formats anymore.
Says who?
I don't seem to have a problem...
http://www.mikejwilson.com/misc/dxf_in_word-2002.doc
Did you install the OfficeXP Converter Pack?
Mike Wilson
PS: It imports best if saved as R12.
Philippe Guglielmetti
printers but generate files instead of wasting paper. They can generate PDF,
WMF, SVG vector formats from any application, including SolidWorks...
I use :
1) http://www.visagesoft.com/ eXPert PDF for PDF,
2) http://www.svgmaker.com/ ( $50 ) for SVG, the new (XML) standard for
scalable vector graphics.
See an example result on http://www.dynabits.com/sw/svg.htm (right-click on
the drawing to zoom...)
However, SVG can't be imported in Word yet (maybe in Office 11/2003),
so I searched for one with WMF support for you and found:
http://www.leadtools.com/Utilities/PrinterDriver/eprint_printer_driver.htm
which does everything for $90.
Don't expect SolidWorks to do everything you need. If you have a problem,
you may ask your VAR, a consultant (SW call them "partners") , this
newsgroup... I'd say SolidWorks' main advantage is to be open enough to let
other people solve the problems... However, they won't tell users who...
Philippe Guglielmetti - www.dynabits.com
Jay Greenfield
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3D-Don
noticed EMF before. I'll try that one.
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3D-Don
EMF from a TIFF through Iview is an option that'll have to try.
The last time that I tried the DXF imput directly into Word was on
Windows 2000 with Office 2000 Pro and the graphics filter for 2000. I
knew that exporting a DXF in an R12 format worked best. Be even that
caused Word to Dr. Watson my ass!
I do have a PDF writer, but again, it's a pixelated image.
The reason I'm so anal about this issue is because I'm trying to place
E-size drawing onto an A-size Word document. Even though the
dimension text is .188-.250 tall, pixelated images hose all the
dimensions. Besides, one would think that a $4000 Windows based MCAD
program would actually export a Windows native file. Wishfull
thinking.
Philippe, Where in Switzerland are you?
Don
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Craig T
Basically set up a postscript printer to produce ps files.
View the ps file with GSview, if pstoedit is installed you can export
WMF's
from Ghostview
it is also possible to do the conversion automagically using the
following cheat sheet to create a WMF printer driver
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Step 0 download Ghostscript, GSview & Redmon
Step 1 Install Ghostscript - v 7.04 or bettter
Step 2 create a file called pdfwrite.rsp
containing the following
-Ic:\progra~1\gs\gs7.04\lib;c:\progra~1\gs\fonts
-sDEVICE=pdfwrite
-r300
-dNOPAUSE
-dSAFER
-sPAPERSIZE=a4
and place it in the c:\progra~1\gs\ directory
Step 3 Install Redmon (extract into destination directory and run
setup)
Step 4 Install GSview v4.2
Step 5 Install pstoedit
Step 6 Run GSview and configure
Step 7 Windows XP
copy gsview.ini to C:\documents and Settings\localservice
note ..\localservice is a system hidden directory
use attrib -h -s \localservice to access it
Step 7 Windows 2000
copy gsview.ini to C:\documents and Settings\default user
Step 8 Create a postscript printer (I use the Adobe Printer Driver
with the hp_Ghostscript_flipper.ppd printer definition but apple
printers also seem to work OK)
Step 9 create a redirected port RPT2 for the printer created in step 3
the path to command
C:\Program Files\Ghostgum\pstoedit\pstoedit.exe
the arguments
-scale 9 -rotate 270 -dt -f wmf - "%1"
set "Prompt for filename"
Cheers
Craig
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