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
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
Hello
Its been a few years since I did this so my memory may not be accurate. Auto cad has a layers panel that supports multiple layers in a drawing. As I recall we had to name layers in a form that could be imported and if the client had to re-import art back into an existing drawing we had to make sure no layer names were duplicated. I know one client only imported our work into a new AutoCAD file then would copy his other info into that.
If its just a background bitmap to be imported Auto cad supports Png.
I think if you go to Autodesk Their autocad User forum may help guide you. They bailed me out lots
Ross Blair
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.