DXF Exports not opening properly in client Software - Altium

What do the "bad" dxf files look like when read back into Creo?

Is it possibly a font issue?  Try changing the config option to stroke font characters.

dxf_out_stroke_text configuration option

https://support.ptc.com/help/creo/creo_pma/usascii/index.html#page/data_exchange/interface/interface_configuration_options.html 

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@MSPAINTCOMEBACK wrote:

I am using Creo Parametric - Release 4.0 (connected) Release 4.0 and DatecodeM150

DXF Exports are not opening correctly in PCB makers' software. Another client was able to export it at M040 level and it imported fine. We are unable to revert to an older "M" version. Versions M100 and M150 both do not export these files correctly for them to open in Altium software.

Another designer at our client was able to export the DXF layout with default DXF Export setting with Creo Parametric 4.0 M040 and import into Altium fine (title block displayed, no missing letters, numbers or symbols)

When they tried to import the M100 or M150 exports from me (same settings), it was missing random letters, leaders were not aligned with the features they were to dimension, symbols were coming in as "~" for diameter and "n" for degrees. Title block did not import at all.

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Hi,

please open DXF file in Notepad++ and check its header. See following example:

999
DXF file: h.dxf
999
Pro/ENGINEER 2017380 by Parametric Technology Corporation
 0
SECTION
 2
HEADER
 9
$ACADVER
 1
AC1024

It contains DXF version ... in my example it is AC1024.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.dwg page for details.

Compare DXF files generated from M040 and M150.