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JamieHarless1-Visitor
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August 3, 2010
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How to control dimensions when exporting to Autocad.

  • August 3, 2010
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Hi All, I was hoping some one would know if /how to control dims when exporting to AutoCad. We export all of our drawings so our clients can utilize them. When first opened the dwg looks fine but as soon as you copy, move, explode etc. the dims change from the way we had them set to a completely different format. We start ot having fractional dims w/ 1/16 precision and the autmatically change to decimal with 4 places? Anyone know why and / or how to fix this? Thanks, Jamie


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pwyndham1-Visitor
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August 4, 2010

I know there are issues when you have the pro/e drawing option for dual dims turned on. It will switch the metric dims to inches when you update the make changes like you said.

I would suggest looking through your drawing config options and see if changing things around makes a difference.

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jschutte10-Marble
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August 6, 2010

We also export most of our drawings to Acad. We basically use it for publish/release production drawings for tooling. Regardless of how we export the DWG we also see that same problem. It makes our tooling guys hate Pro. Do anything to the DWG & BAM! two dims.

Very annoying. Bumping this post in the hopes of a solution.

Regards,

Joe Schutte

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AdrianHall1-Visitor
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August 19, 2010

Hi Jamie,

I know its a ball ache but try creating DXF from Pro-E and then creating a DWG in AutoCAD from the DXF. We are using AutoCAD R14 (OLD I know but our 2D guys are set in their ways) and we get much better results.

Cheers

Adrian Hall

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AdrianHall1-Visitor
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August 19, 2010

Hi Jamie

I know its a ball ache but try creating DXF from Pro-E and then creating a DWG in AutoCAD from the DXF. We are using AutoCAD R14 (OLD I know but our 2D guys are set in their ways) and we get much better results.

Cheers

Adrian Hall

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