Importing AutoCAD drawings into MS Word
Importing AutoCAD drawings into MS Word
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I am trying to import AutoCAD drawings into MS Word. I have tried plotting as a *.jpg file and inserting it as a picture into Word, but when I print the text is always pixilated. I know there is a way to import drawing directly into word but it is giving me an error when I try to import object and click on AutoCAD drawing file.
Anyone have any better ideas.
Thanks
Anyone have any better ideas.
Thanks





RE: Importing AutoCAD drawings into MS Word
Chris
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RE: Importing AutoCAD drawings into MS Word
RE: Importing AutoCAD drawings into MS Word
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RE: Importing AutoCAD drawings into MS Word
This creates a Word Meta File (wmf). It is a vector object, not raster, so it can be scaled up or down without a loss of quality. The lines are thin and uniform, no varying line weights, but it looks great in Word.
RE: Importing AutoCAD drawings into MS Word
RE: Importing AutoCAD drawings into MS Word
There has to be a way to import a .DWG directly into MS Word. I have about 100 sets of instructions that have .dwg imported into them. There are references on the internet that say you should be able to double click on them and open and modify them in AutoCAD. The problem is as soon as I touch one of these imported .DWG objects, MS Word locks up.
Anyone else have any ideas?
Thanks
RE: Importing AutoCAD drawings into MS Word
There is, depending on your version of Word, from the insert menu, select Object.... Then click the tab Create from File and then select your AutoCAD file. You can of course, select the option to link to the file so everytime your document is opened, it will re-read the AutoCAD file and show the latest changes.
As for Word locking up on you, you may not have enough horsepower on your machine to handle all the overhead. If you are trying to edit the object, Word will attempt to place the AutoCAD picture from Word into your temp directory - if that's too full, this could cause your machine to lock up. You didn't mention what version of Word/AutoCAD you were running, and it could be a newer version of AutoCAD in the Word document than you have on your machine.
HTH
Todd
RE: Importing AutoCAD drawings into MS Word
I have 3ghz with 1.5gig of ram.
RE: Importing AutoCAD drawings into MS Word
After setting my working background to white instead of the more usual black, I've always just (first) zoom-windowed in on the ojects I want to pick up (thus minimizing the empty extra space around my objects) and used"copyclip" without a basepoint, and ^v into WORD. If the lines are too thin as you print your WORD document with the drawing in it, adjust lineweight settings in the drawing, and re-copy. You shouldn't have any further trouble with any of this.
I regularly use ACAD drawings of one part of the design or another (including 2D drawings, and hidden [dispsilh=1] 3D and shaded and rendered images- whichever is most appropriate for the topic I'm writing) in proceedures, etc. that I might be writing, and then PDF the resulting WORD document, for mass distribution.
Good luck!
C.Fee
RE: Importing AutoCAD drawings into MS Word
I find that for odd reasons known only to the designers, you have to adjust your AutoCAD window to show exactly the image you want inserted, change black background to white, etc., but then it works great.
What really surprised me is that someone that doesn't have AutoCAD can still open the word file and the image is there- I figured it would need AutoCAD to even see it, but not so.
RE: Importing AutoCAD drawings into MS Word
RE: Importing AutoCAD drawings into MS Word
I decided just to copy and paste the drawing directly from AutoCAD into word. You are unable to edit the after doing this but it creates the best printed image.
Thanks all for your ideas.