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Thanks for the tips. The problem is I'm not MAC based but the guy who has the drawings is and unfortunately has no intention of upgrading to a recent version of CAD. At this point, unless I can get the drawings into DXF format I can't read them or trace them into AutoCAD. I have done the tracing thing when we converted from paper to electronic files eons ago with the advent of the PC. OOPs am I dating myself. While it's not perfect, it's a lot better then starting from scratch. Thanks. Mike, I'll shoot you a copy of the drawing to see what you can do. Let me know what else if anything I can do to help.

I need help converting an old Blueprint file to a DXF file. After contacting tech support I was told there is no way to do it directly. The only way they could figure out was to find someone runnning MiniCad6 and have them import the file and then resave it (upgrading it) to a MiniCad 6 format, then I need to have someone with MiniCad 8 do the same thing. At this point the Minicad 8 driver should be good enough to export the file a decent DXF file. While MiniCad 6 has DXF export capabilities I could lose some parts of the drawing going from MC6 to DXF and therefore the prefered method is to do it from MC8. That said if I can't do the whole convertion part i.e. MC6 to DXF would be better then nothing. If anyone can help with part 1 or part 2 of this upgrade I would greatly appreciate their assistance. Thanks a bunch Bill Porter