Exporting to DWG

[MattP]

Does anyone have any tips on exporting drawings to dwg files. I have been doing this for a while but I would like to get away from the seemingly necessary clean up in ACAD afterwards. For example, BOM's come into ACAD (for me at least) in a barely visible grey when they were black in my SLDDRW file.

Thanks,
Matt

 

[SBaugh]

Look into using a map file. This is used for mapping out lines to layers, etc...

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376

 

[MattP]

Thanks Scott, I just worked thru the mapping file bit but I still can't figure out how to change the contents of the BOM to white or something visible with a black ACAD window. I mapped the BOM in the entities to white but only the BOM lines show up as white. The content comes thru as color 179 which is nearly black. Any ideas?

 

[SBaugh]

Is it the New SW BOM or the old Excel BOM?

Regards

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376

 

[MattP]

The new SW BOM. I just found a work around. I changed the layer of the BOM to something different than 0. Of course I have to do this to all of my BOM's before I can get the task scheduler to work right when exporting.