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!
Hello n3v; Try a "PLT" file and see if that helps?
adrian - line weights are not assigned until you plot the file at the end, this is so that you can use different plot styles depending on the drawing you want, for example in CAD you tend to draw at a 1;1 scale but export it to a variety of different scales, so line weights that are correct for one scale might be hideously thick for another scale. The line widths are fine in the CAD preview and in the subsequent .pdf, it is when you export the drawing into corel.
John and Jack - I hadn't thought of doing it this way, sounds good! perhaps a little labourious but it might be the easiest option, i never tend to use more than perhaps 6-8 colours per plot so might not be as difficult as it sounds, its just frustrating that there is a problem transference between the two programs. I think that your method would almost certainly work, only most of the files I'm talking about were plotted to .pdf some time ago with all the correct line weights etc so ideally I was looking for a solution that would have just opened what I have without any fuss.
George: who's brian? Ha ha