John2004,
Design Review (DR) don't really open DWG or DXF files. Instead Autodesk has embedded a DWG to DWF converter to the DR. So every time you "force" DR to open DWG the program will convert the DWG to DWF first before able to read the file. But this process is slow and you not able to...
DWF is Autodesk dream of substituting pdf format at least for CAD dwg related files.
Both format will end up complimenting each other rather than competing each other.
Conversion to pdf is much simplier and faster - just scan all your plan and output direct to pdf files. To convert to dwf you...
Vector to raster is easy but raster to vector is messy. It take lot of complicated AI algorithm for a computer to recognize even a simple line drawn in raster. To get good result your raster image must be very clean and accurate at first place. Even the bad boys at Autodesk have given up on...
Just found out from Autodesk website that the coming AutoCAD v2008 will add in the automated scaling annotation feature. The annotation and text will be scaled to the viewport scale factor. The automated annotation can even have different visibility control in different viewport scale factor...
By all mean, stay away with IntelliCad. My company start replacing Autocad R14 with IntelliCAD few years ago and our drafting teams are cursing it everyday. It's not 100% compatible with AutoCad. Often you will find something missing here and there for no reason. User interface especially the...
Try this one. This book covers both the metric and imperial measurement. Reasonably priced.
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There are few steps to consider in order to get the proper lineweight set in drawing plotted correctly.
First you must consider which plot style to use, namely, color (.CTB) or named plot style (.STB).
In color plot style, AutoCAD will translate each color to a lineweight as set in the color...
I presume that when you in mspace within the viewport you have used the realtime zoom. In realtime zoom, the zoomed scale factor is not necessary incremented by a round number. There is nothing wrong setting the scale factor by changing the viewport scale factor. You could have set something...
Can't really understand what is your question. Seem like you have switched into model space within the viewport. If that the case, just check the status bar (the most bottom bar of the AutoCAD window). It will read "model" if you are in model space of a viewport or "paper" if you are in paper...
