Any AutoCad / Drafting guru's here?
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Any AutoCad / Drafting guru's here?
this is probably a stupid question... is there any way to take an AutoCad drawing border and import it into Visio so that the text is still able to be edited?
a bunch of the sparky's in my office prefer to use Visio for diagrams and crap-o-la and i've been tasked with getting them up to speed on borders and such. i'd much rather import our ACAD template into visio than re-create it.
a bunch of the sparky's in my office prefer to use Visio for diagrams and crap-o-la and i've been tasked with getting them up to speed on borders and such. i'd much rather import our ACAD template into visio than re-create it.
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Originally Posted by RussB
this is probably a stupid question... is there any way to take an AutoCad drawing border and import it into Visio so that the text is still able to be edited?
a bunch of the sparky's in my office prefer to use Visio for diagrams and crap-o-la and i've been tasked with getting them up to speed on borders and such. i'd much rather import our ACAD template into visio than re-create it.
a bunch of the sparky's in my office prefer to use Visio for diagrams and crap-o-la and i've been tasked with getting them up to speed on borders and such. i'd much rather import our ACAD template into visio than re-create it.
Longer answer: sometimes it comes out ****ty.
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It's been a little bit since I've done it. I think you have to play around with exporting as different formats from acad (dxf,wmf, etc) and then try to open/import those into visio.
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got it. in visio there's an "insert cad drawing" command. the actual border came out perfect, but the text fields were much easier to re-do with visio text blocks.
this is why i try to stick with Pro/E for my own work
this is why i try to stick with Pro/E for my own work
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Originally Posted by RussB
got it. in visio there's an "insert cad drawing" command. the actual border came out perfect, but the text fields were much easier to re-do with visio text blocks.
this is why i try to stick with Pro/E for my own work
this is why i try to stick with Pro/E for my own work
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Originally Posted by R4ND0M_AX3
pro-e sucks ***. mspaintz all da way y0!
one of our managers would prefer to stop paying for our pro/e and pro/intralink licenses and switch back to autocad for design work... a lot of the other mechanical engineers are all up in arms over that. i say let him do that, and once they realize that we can't access current projects or support old ones, management will figure it out pretty fast.
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I do it every muthar****en day. Microstation and Autocad r14, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005 .....you name it.
Yet I'm still no help. Gerrrr.
Yet I'm still no help. Gerrrr.
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