Exporting a AutoCAD pic into MS Word...HELP!!!!

What I want to know is if there is a way to take portion of an AutoCAD 2000 file and put it into a MS Word document? I have a bunch of MS Word files that give info about Air Handler Units and want to be able to insert a pic showing what area of a building that a particular Air Handler controls. Can anyone help?

 

[dsi]

You can export drawings (SaveAs), or portions thereof, to image files that can be imported into Word. You will probably need to switch to the white background for better quality images. DimensionalSolutions@Core.com
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Can you give a step-by-step? I dont quite understand how saveas would do it. Saveas would save the whole drawing, not just the part that i want.

 

[CDH]

One way you can do it is to do a screen shot and then edit it with a paint program. Here is a step by step procedure to follow. You may already know how to do most of these things, but I just wanted to make it easier to follow.

First get the view you want in your ACAD window
Then press ctrl-shift-printscreen
This will make an image of your entire screen pasted to the clipboard.
Next open MSPAINT and paste (ctrl-v) the image. It will probably tell you that the image in the clipboard is larger than the bitmap. Select yes to enlarge it. Now you should have a bitmap of your entire screen.
Next, still in PAINT, select the little dashed rectangle and draw a window around the specific part you want to use and do a copy (ctrl-c)
Start a new image and paste this one into it.
Now you should have just the image you want.
Next you need to invert the colors in the image (unless your background is already white, then you dont need to)
After doing this you can change it to black and white under the image, attributes selection.
Now you should have a nice black and white image that you can save and then insert it into word.

 

[SteveSmith]

First go to TOOLS>OPTIONS>DISPLAY>COLORS and set the background to white. You will want to set all lines, text, etc.. to black for the best results.

Now go to FILE>EXPORT this will bring up a save as a wmf (Windows Meta File) option. Select the items in the drawing you want to show and your done.

From Word just insert and size the wmf file as needed.

Regards, Steve Smith
Product Engineer
Staco Energy Products Co.

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[3DDon]

ALEXIAN,

Been there, done that. Here you go...

First, you need to make sure that you have the image enhancement package for MS Word that so that you can import DXF files. It's downloadable from Microsoft.

Next, save your drawing as a DXF and then import the DXF file into word. Done! The imported image is scalable, and you can chage the colors of the different entities if necessary, but can be time consuming if it's a complex image.
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[sc]

Change your background as per Steve Smiths suggestion and then use ctrl-c as for any other windows program, select the objects to be copied and hit enter.

You may need to crop the picture in word (format picture command). This works fine if you do not require a permanent association between the Autocad drawing and the word file.

Regards

SC

 

[tigrek]

Zoom and pan in Acad and then copy/paste (ctrl C/ ctrl V) seems to be better than editing in Word.

I had posted a FAQ on this.