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CorelCAD Convert to CorelDRAW

I am using CorelCAD 2013.5 and CorelDRAW x7. In CorelCAD I have a 2D drawing that I have removed the line weight and shaded Black. I then use the Export to CorelDRAW and select all . CorelCAD reports a successful export. I then open the cdr file in CorelDRAW and I noticed that the straight lines are normal but any curve or circle is formed of jagged blocks that remind me of bit mapping. So I increased the size of the graphic x100 in CorelCAD and re-exported to CorelDRAW. Same problem with the curved graphics showing as 'bit maps'. Tried again in CorelCAD this times at x10,000. Same 'bit map' result in CorelDRAW.

My original graphic in CorelCAD was 297 mm wide. In CorelCAD the x100 and x10,000 show as 29700 mm and 2970000 mm as expected. The graphics when measured in CorelDRAW are original = 274 mm, x100 = 219 mm and x10,000 = 162 mm. Something is wrong.

Question
Is there a problem in the CorelCAD to CorelDRAW Export command or am I missing a program setting?

Cheers,
George

0 cj7hawk over 8 years ago

Hi George,

You might need to wait for Klaus to come along to answer that one - I can only assume it's exporting a raster instead of a vector - but I don't know enough about the export function to repeat it - If you can post the file ( or a similar file ) with instructions, I'd be glad to repeat it and see if I get anything different -

David.
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0 George Hargreaves over 8 years ago in reply to cj7hawk

Thanks for your thoughts David, I'm thinking you may be correct. klaus has made contact and I did send in the original drawings. in CorelCAD I used Regions to create shapes by addition and subtraction and also to view the 2D shapes when rendering the solid. I'm now thinking it is the polylines that will have to be used to export to CorelDRAW. Thanks for the clue.

Cheers,
George
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0 cfoamgraphics over 8 years ago

Go 'save as' DXF or DWG to a folder and it should open,(just did them in both formats) draw does have a limit of about 20 meters where cad is infinite.(great if your workmate goes away - jump on his comp and write "I have a small ***" in letters 5 ks high then go back to his drawings - great fun.
My suggestion is to scale your graphic down in cad - "SCALE ENTER 0.1 ENTER . I just made a polyline with curves and saved it to a folder as DWG it opened as a vector in draw. Sometimes 'saving as' seems to work better than exporting (which is like copy/pasting or snipping, just taking a screen shot)
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0 George Hargreaves over 8 years ago in reply to cfoamgraphics

Hi cfoamgraphics,

Here is what I ended up doing.
1. Redrew the drawing using polylines and lines
2. Scaled the drawing at x1000 larger.
3. Exported to CorelDRAW
4. Opened in CorelDRAW Selected All and Ungrouped All. This resulted in discrete objects that could be worked with.

My drawing had some very small objects that were not being converted well and when in Draw the line weights would overlap. This prevented filling in the object. So by scaling up x1000 the small object were large enough so that the line weights did not overlap and the drawing was small enough overall to fit into the Draw work space. This then allowed for a simple filling in of the objects. Some object still did not convert well but is was a simple matter to fix them.

My Thanks to all for your responses.

Cheers,
George
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