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Section D Graphic Display
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D 9.5.1 Instructions for loading AutoCAD files
Graphic files created with AutoCAD are in Data Exchange Format (.DXF) and can be converted
automatically into Freelance 2000 Metafile Format (.DMF)
To be convertible, the AutoCAD version must be Release 10 or 11.
The following items from the full range supported by the AutoCAD language can be converted:
Line Period Circle Arc String
Solid Text Polyline Block (Macros)
Shapes, polynets defined with the polyline item, B-Splines and 3D-Polylines, 3D-Face
and viewport items are not convertible.
The DXF script size (font size) is converted according to the DMF coordinate size. The
resultant script size is compared with the displayable script sizes defined in DigiTool and
assigned to the size most closely matching the size to be converted. ”RefPoint, Start” is
assigned with the DMF text attributes to the DXF text attributes ”Aligned” and ”Adapt”.
Only text with rotation angles of 0, 90, 180 and 270 degrees can be converted properly; the
closest angle is assigned in all other cases.
All AutoCAD elements are converted irrespective of their assigned layer. Individual layers
cannot be blanked out.
Blocks that are rotated or reflected are not converted properly.
Instance Objects (SECTION ENTITIES) of any type showing negative coordinates, are not
converted. An exception here is the element objects of a block.
User Coordinate Systems (UCS), external references (XREF) and nested blocks (Insert
instruction in block) are not supported.
During conversion, a log file with the file name DXF2DMF.LOG is created or updated.
Non-convertible elements, non-supported objects and conversion errors are logged in
this file. The path name of the DXF source and the line number within the DXF file are
recorded, followed by an error description text.
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