Copy/Pasted Excel objects not saved in DXF

[Ataloss]

I received some drawings from a customer where the revision block and hole chart were cut and pasted from an Excel spreadsheet. I am sending these drawings out for quote and tried to save them as a DXF and DWG. When I do this, the rev block and hole chart do not show up in the DXF or DWG file.

If I insert a BOM, and save the file as a DXF, the BOM does show up in the DXF, but the cut and pasted Excel table does not. The inserted BOM is just an excel file isn't it?

Any ideas what I could be doing wrong? Am I missing a setting somewhere? I'm using SW2003.

Thanks,
Bob

 

[SBaugh]

This is an OLE limitation in MS Office not SW. The only way around it is to send the excel sheet separatly, make actually charts using Lines and notes in the drawing format, or create a hyperlink to the excel sheets.

Best Regards, Scott Baugh, CSWP
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[Ataloss]

Thirty seconds after I posted, I came up with an idea and it worked. I was trying to save the DXF as a Version 12. I tried saving it as a Version 14 and everything was saved in the DXF.

Bob