Hello,
we use CorelDraw X5 to make cartographies on building plans with several layers of - mostly - polylines drawings (one layer = one building material type or one weathering form type) and we must give them back to architects who use AutoCAD.
We already tried several times to export the .cdr to .dxf or .dwg files, but till now, the architect seems to be able to open the files, but our cartographie is quite illegible: only some parts of the layers are visible and it seems that some layers are not visible at all...
Does someone can first tell me if the exportation .cdr to .dxf/.dwg is really possible?
If it's possible, does someone can explain me how to exactly do? (the help doesn't help me at all till now...)
Thanks,
Bénédicte
I tried export metafile (wmf) gives its best results as dxf
The most easy way to take AutoCAD drawings to Corel Draw as vector curves is to use the wmf format. Export your drawings from AutoCAD as WMF. Go to file, click on export
Define a folder to export the file and select the wmf (windows metafile) format in the dropdown box:When you click on ‘save’ you will come to your model space in AutoCAD. Now select your desired are of your drawing to export it as wmf for using in other vector graphics softwares like Corel Draw.
After selection press Enter or right-click. Your wmf file is now saved to the folder. Now open the Corel Draw file. Drag the wmf file from the folder and drop inside your drawing (you can do it using the ‘import’ command in corel also). Your AutoCAD drawing will now appear as vector curves in Corel Draw. To edit or render the drawing in Corel, just right click on the drawing and ‘ungroup’ it.
You are done. Now start rendering the drawing in Corel draw. You can change line thickness and color (press F12), you can also fill any area or use other effects as you desire. To keep the file size and memory usage in control of corel keep the imported drawing in a group after rendering(to group objects press ctrl+G).Another technique of using AutoCAD drawing in Corel is to save the AutoCAD drawing as ‘.dxf AutoCAD 2000’ format. You’ll get this option in ‘save as’. DXF drawings can be dragged and dropped or imported in Corel Draw directly. But you can’t select any specific area of the drawing during import export process. DXF will come with the entire model space drawing of the AutoCAD file into Corel, and often it may cause memory shortage and slow performance...
Hello, I am an architect that uses AutoCAD Architectural 2008 and 2013 in my Commercial Architectural practice and I'm new to using CorelDRAW, so I'm looking forward to trying out the steps you list above. I plan to use CorelDRAW for presentation boards, brochure pages, and other graphics in the office.
Thank you.
(I also am learning Revit. Do you have any experience with with Revit?)
thank you dear friend for your response, I'm glad you are interested in this topic, I love coreldraw, I did alot of export cdr file
For Revit I have an idea but I do not really work
I am at your disposal for further clarification
Mustapha
Hey there,
I am very interested in this topic, too. My problem is that the curves are never imported from Corel Draw to AutoCAD as "round figures" but as many little lines that have a radius. So when I zoom in there are no round curves but many little lines. This happens to everything: Fonts, Circles, and so on. How can this be fixed? I also tried several export formats: dxf, dwg, wmf, ... And I always get the same result. :-(
Kind regards
FloM
FloM said: I also tried several export formats: dxf, dwg, wmf
I'm not sure about X5, but X6 can export fonts, circles and even bezier curves to DXF 2008-2013 format. It can also re-import them and they are still circles, fonts and curves.
Try the test file attached. If autocad does not preserve the curves or the font, that must be a problem of autocad.
I tried is great as cdr...
Well I already exported as DXF or DWG. The file was very simple (just one circle for testing). When I import it into an empty AutoCAD file it is not round. When I reimport the file into Corel it is a perfect circle. So it must be a problem of AutoCAD but I hope that someone maybe knows a workaroung or has some kind of hint.
Hello FloM; That's the way AutoCad does arks ( at least up to Ver. 10 for DOS.) You can go to the AutoCad web site or look in the book that came with the programs it is explained.
George
I tried again right now. It works. Maybe it is because of the new CorelDraw X7 or AutoCAD LT 2013, which we both updated.