AutoCAD to Microsoft Word

[zennis]

Is there a way to take lines, arrows, text in an AutoCAD drawing and paste it or convert it to a Microsoft Word Document that someone without AutoCAD can edit the file?

I know you can paste the AutoCAD drawing into Microsoft Word but this does not allow for editing unless you have AutoCAD. Or maybe I am incorrect in this statement.

Thanks,

 

[dik]

Not that I'm aware of... you can create a *.wmf file from autocad, but it cannot be edited other than it's possible to modify the scale or to window it, using software(?) or by using Windows API calls...

Dik

 

[draftsmandon]

Our company uses our AutoCAD drawings as images in our user manuals. We have a group of people who work on the manuals as a word document, but they are not drafters. What we do is export the drawing from AutoCAD into the .WMF format and insert that as a picture into the word document. Our owner's manual staff then takes that Word document and adds their notes and arrows with the Word drawing tools. They can't make any real effective working drawings, but that's not the point. They can only take the basic drawing and add relevant service notes. The finished product looks really good.

 

[zennis]

Thanks for the replies and thoughts. I think that using .wmf format is the way to go.

 

[dik]

The advantage of a *.wmf file is that it's scaleable and stays sharp when you zoom in on it. I use it as a graphics for programming in Delphi and Excel and it's really good.

Dik

 

[cfee]

WMF is the perfect format for porting the ACAD drawing into WORD. HOWEVER- you won't be able to edit the drawing itself without ACAD, and that'll require returning to the ORIGINAL drawing, making necessary edits, and re-porting the result to a new insertable WMF and replacing the figure in the WORD document with the newly edited figure.

I used to paste-special my ACAD drawing into word, and if someone ever needed to edit the drawing file, double-clicking on the inserted "figure" would call a session of ACAD (they had to have it loaded on their computer) where internal edits COULD be made. Otherwise, only surface edits like arrows and comments using the internal WORD draw tools, can be added to the word document itself.

Good luck-
C. Fee