The only way I can think of to do this without Rade would be to create your own save interface in VB. Then you could drive off those events. The only dialog available in vba is the input dialog.
There are 2 ways:
1) You can open the CGM file in Catia using the File/Open
2) You can import the CGM file and use the CGM data to create a new CATDrawing.
Jack C.
Another option that works well for us is to save as or print to a postscript file then use Ghostscript to create the tiff. If you are on AIX this easy to do and then you can have any quality that you want.
Jack C.