DWG Files
06-20-2007, 02:01 PM
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DWG Files
Okay, all you CAD Gurus. I just received a DWG file containing the graphics for a model I am working on and I of course couldn't open it. I down loaded a program called "Freedwgviewer", but can't seem to move the dwg file from the e-mail into a location where I can use the Freedwgviewer to open it. I guess I have two questions: The file contains graphics. Can I just fwd the e-mail to the graphics shop? The second question: Is there another way to open this file?
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06-20-2007, 05:55 PM
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RE: DWG Files
DWG is an AutoCAD file. You could download the free TurboCAD LE program and it should open it but you probably need to get the file to hyour hard drive first. Your viewer should work then though. My mail program lets me open or save to the hard drive when I click it. Maybe right click and "save as"?
06-20-2007, 07:40 PM
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RE: DWG Files
AutoCad by Autodesk has changed over the past couple years now. It has gotten so customized that it may not look right except on the very computer it was created upon.
Simplest thing is to open up that file in Microsoft Notebook or Wordpad. Smack up front will be the version identifyers. If it was done in Autocad 2007, and you are operating LT or something equavalent, it should give you a non-compatibility notice, otherwise it may open it up, and then just show nothing. Back in the 1990's this could be worked around, and now it can't.
Then too, if the original drawing contained XREF's you may see nothing at all. The actual drawing elements are on some other hard drive. It was customary to do this beginning in the early 1990's just to save file space (K size). The graphic may be tied into a certain graphics software, and if you do not have that loaded on to your system in same format, that too will not show.
Best thing to do is to contact original vendor and ask for a complete and whole drawing. It will be bigger, but you will then be able to see it all, provided the version can be seen with your viewer.
Presume that you have done a ZOOM All, or Extents. For further comment, go to the AutoDesk web site and get to one of their forums.
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Simplest thing is to open up that file in Microsoft Notebook or Wordpad. Smack up front will be the version identifyers. If it was done in Autocad 2007, and you are operating LT or something equavalent, it should give you a non-compatibility notice, otherwise it may open it up, and then just show nothing. Back in the 1990's this could be worked around, and now it can't.
Then too, if the original drawing contained XREF's you may see nothing at all. The actual drawing elements are on some other hard drive. It was customary to do this beginning in the early 1990's just to save file space (K size). The graphic may be tied into a certain graphics software, and if you do not have that loaded on to your system in same format, that too will not show.
Best thing to do is to contact original vendor and ask for a complete and whole drawing. It will be bigger, but you will then be able to see it all, provided the version can be seen with your viewer.
Presume that you have done a ZOOM All, or Extents. For further comment, go to the AutoDesk web site and get to one of their forums.
Wm.
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RE: DWG Files
Bish, if you send it to me I can make a .pdf file out of it which you can view assuming you have Adobe Acrobat. You won't be able to manipulate it but you can view it to make sure it is what you want before sending it off to the graphics shop.
Chad Veich
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