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Major issue in my office right now. Maybe this has been covered on here all ready... We have done a series of A3 drawings with multiple scales in them. We are now exchanging these drawings with a company using AutoCad 2002 and they need to work into the drawings. How do we export the draeings so the scales are correct... the drawings apparently explode or are not at true scales.

ok.... go file/export/image file then in the dialogue box there will be a drop down that says BMP as defualt. in there are various image options. Also in that dialogue are tonnes of setting options. you may need to experiment to get the size right. chris

errrr.... anyone? guess not hehe...

Not that i know of, except ask your client to save the dwg as an earlier version. 2000 is usually best to save problems

depends on your version.... which flavour are you using?

when you go to the print file. rather than just clicking the save as pdf button, change the copies and page drop down to output options then click save as file. with the format as pdf. This isn't a definite way to fix it but it helped when we had the same problem. chris

There are 2 ways i do this.... either by simple VS 3d only or DXF... but i have found that upon import using VS 3d solids are wrecked and unusable, also symbols are not converted to strata shapes meaning you have to convert these to 3d poly meshes or 3d poly groups first. DXF understands the solids and for its sins reccognises symbols too. BUT the geometry is triangulated and and the poly face count off the scale. can anyone help me out here so that i can untilise the power of both programs without too much geometry modifying?? Some body on stratacafe forum mentioned that the support for strata export is going to be phased out in the future.... is this true?!?! (NOOOOOO!!!) c.