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?
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 said: i have tried .eps, and i dont really remember it being too much better.. i dont think a dxf would work because the way i use autocad is to assign line weight by colour of the object, so the line weight is not applied until you post script it, ie eps or pdf.
i have tried .eps, and i dont really remember it being too much better.. i dont think a dxf would work because the way i use autocad is to assign line weight by colour of the object, so the line weight is not applied until you post script it, ie eps or pdf.
If I understand you correctly the all lines of the same color are the same weight, correct? If so, there may be a way to change the weights by color in Corel en mass for each color. A little convoluted, but not to bad. In the Edit Menu there is a Find and Replace > Find Objects. Select Begin New Search. Outline Tab. Select Outline Properties, then next and select the color button. Choose the color you wish to work with then next and finish. Select find all. This will find and select all outlines that match the color chosen. Select the Outline tool and the weight of the line you wish that color your want.
You will have to do each color individually but it beats doing them individually and you can save the searches under what ever name you desire.
Maybe Jeff has a Macro that will do the same or perhaps one to the resident gurus of Macros on the board can write you one.
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?