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AutoCAD For Dummies, 19th Edition
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AutoCAD For Dummies, 19th Edition

by Ralph Grabowski
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
544 pages
15h 31m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 24

AutoCAD Plays Well with Others

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Exporting AutoCAD DWG files to other file formats

Bullet Importing other file formats into AutoCAD

Bullet Dealing with translation issues

So your drawing masterpiece is ready to go. Chapter 16 covers plotting to paper, and Chapter 20 discusses the details of transmitting drawing files using the internet. So far, so good. But what if you want to include a drawing as an illustration in a written report? Or send a drawing to someone using a CAD program other than AutoCAD? No problem. This chapter starts by revealing several processes for extracting drawing information in a variety of file formats.

Next, we come to the flip side. What if you receive a drawing file that isn’t in DWG format? Okay, maybe that's not much of a problem because AutoCAD can import and even edit several other file formats.

This chapter concludes with a section on some of the possible pitfalls of dealing with translations between file formats.

Get Out of Here!

AutoCAD has several processes for exporting drawings in formats other than DWG. In fact, it often has more than one process for the same format.

In Chapter 1, I discuss the difference between the two fundamental ...

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