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Conference noted::ibmpc-95

Title:	IBM PCs, clones, DOS, etc.
Notice:	Intro in 1-11, Windows stuff in NOTED::MSWINDOWS please
Moderator:	TARKIN::LINND

Created:	Tue Jan 03 1995
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3023
Total number of notes:	28404

3023.0. "AutoCAD release 13/14 conversion needed" by GRUFFY::ZAHORA (Rob Zahora) Mon Jun 02 1997 20:08

    Does anyone have access to a system with AutoCAD release 13 or 14?
    I need to convert an AutoCAD .DWG file to the ASCII-based .DXF format
    that my AutoSketch program can read in.
    
    I've tried reading the .DWG file on a release 12 system but get an
    incompatible version error.  Thus I infer that the file was produced on
    a release 13 or 14 system and that such a system would be needed for
    the conversion.  I don't believe conversion programs such as HiJaak Pro
    will handle the newer AutoCAD file formats.

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3023.1 conversion accomplished GRUFFY::ZAHORA Rob Zahora Wed Jun 04 1997 16:02 7

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3023.1	conversion accomplished	GRUFFY::ZAHORA	Rob Zahora	`Wed Jun 04 1997 16:02`	7
	Thanks to some off line contacts I was able to get the R13 .DWG file converted to an ASCII R13 .DXF file. Unfortunately, my AutoSketch program couldn't handle this .DXF version. Poking around the Autodesk WWW pages I found a utility called DXFIX which converts an R13 DXF to R12. After this conversion I was able to import the file with only a few minor problems.

    Thanks to some off line contacts I was able to get the R13 .DWG file
    converted to an ASCII R13 .DXF file.  Unfortunately, my AutoSketch 
    program couldn't handle this .DXF version.  
    
    Poking around the Autodesk WWW pages I found a utility called DXFIX
    which converts an R13 DXF to R12.  After this conversion I was able to
    import the file with only a few minor problems.