this might be a little specialized but i use corel generally to layout architectural drawings. I export them from autocad usually as a .pdf with a variety of different line weights, I notice its not the .pdf but corel tends distort or alter these line weights which typically undoes hours of hard work, is there a way to make these line weights transfer more smoothly to corel?
Hello n3v; I'm used to a older Ver. of AuotCad, All of the lines would import & export as hair lines, I don't know about the newer ver. ( just something to keep in mind. ) Are you related to "R2V2?
Ah George you're back, making them hairline is easy! its when theyre all different thicknesses, perhaps if i set the ones coming out of autocad to match the preset thicknesses that corel has it might help?
also N3V is supposed to be nev but i think that username was taken!
Hello Again n3v; I was hoping you could get me a autograph ( Darn ) How about adding the line thickness in Corel after importing, or using a "Contour"?
George
george, we're talking about thousands of lines in one drawing here!
You can set a "Contour" to what ever you want ( 0.001" ) or more, and any color you like. In sign work we only need + or - 0.125" to make things work. Did you know they have a free trial down load of "CorelCad"? What are you making that is that much fun to make. For me a can of "One Shot" has fixed a lot of problems. Don't Ya Know? And that many lines is where "Not to Scale" came from And where is Brian?
n3v you can set the lines two what ever you want in draw in the setup. I hope you find a easy out. John or Jeff may have a macro that could help John's site gdgmacros.com and jeff's is macromonster.com. And you could allway do what I do get a LOT of BEER and start clicking
Good Luck George
Something is puzzling me. Why are the line widths defined only when publishing to a PDF or EPS?
Isn't there someway you can define those line widths in AutoCAD? (I'm not a Cad guy, just throwing suggestions your way.)
What about writing to a PDF using a PDF writer instead of publishing?
Another way, is to convert all the lines to outlines in Adobe Acrobat. First you need to add a Watermark, drop the transparency and use the Flattener Preview tool to convert these lines.