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- From: rogerb@pisco.esd.sgi.com (Roger Brown P.E.)
- Newsgroups: alt.cad.autocad
- Subject: Re: Converting Release 12 or Release 11 drawings to Release 10 (Help!)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.225700.9499@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 22:57:00 GMT
- References: <Pi8NXB1w165w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
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- In article <Pi8NXB1w165w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>, elmo@cybernet.cse.fau.edu
- (Yuri Villanueva) writes:
- |> Is there an easy way to do this? The other way around is easy. r11 or
- |> 12
- |> will readily read r10 drawings. I tried to convert using DXFIN/DXFOUT,
- |> but
- |> I always get an error when I try to read in the DXF file into r10. I
- |> tried
- |> it with 6 decimal places, 16, and also with binary option. I actually
- |> haven't tried to do the exchange with small files, but the procedure
- |> simply
- |> won't work for my 400K floorplan. I dont want to use IGES because the
- |> translation is not very good. All machines are for IBM-PC compatibles.
- |> |> We're using an old 286 (running r10 of course) to do the plotting so
- |> the
- |> other machines (r11 or 12) can be busy at work. Plot files are very
- |> inconvenient because we usually have to do last-minute adjustments just
- |> before plot time. Any ideas, please e-mail or post. Thanks in advance
- |> for
- |> the help.
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- Have you tried DXFIX? It may be found in your R12/SUPPORT directory.
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- Roger Brown, P.E.
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