DWG Files (AutoCad)

[Tony Teveris]

How many people get DWG files that are generated from AutoCad. How often do you receive these types of files?

[Fred Weiss]

We get various files generated out of AutoCad including DWG, DXF and EPS. We never have much luck and definitely do not have fun trying to work with them.

[williamson design]

If im not mistaken you can open DWG & DXF in Adobe Illustrator, and output or save to desired format.

I do know that a lot of the AutoCAD formats have a lot of "lines" that are not connected.

Glen

[Cadmn]

don't think the lines of most text in an autocad text is conected gotta draw with polylines but Kenny is the autocad expert I think I know he still uses it every day last I taught it was release 14 1990? 91?

[Kenny]

...I print to a PDF file directly from Autocad...makes a clean file for import, and you can control all images, line-weights, etc. at the time of print.

Autocad 2007 has a new DWG file format, so you will have to save down even for newer releases of vector software in order to import DWG/DXF files.