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Luis Solivan
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August 10, 2009
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DWG files

  • August 10, 2009
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An architect friend of mine send me a project he worked on in AutoCAD and I wanted to open it and see if I can use anything for a presentation of the same project.  I was able to open it but not in the way that he thought it would, meaning that the entire job was all over the place and most of it was outside the white area behind the artboard (the grey area).  So I open it to fit an 8.5x11size artboard and still most of the different pages or sheets of the job were spread all over the white area and some outside the grey area. And also very slow and lack of memory issues.

My question is:  Is there an easier way to deal with or open .dwg files?  I don't know the AutoCAD program and it capabilities to export.

Thanks

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    DWG_wizard
    Participant
    August 12, 2010

    It has been since almost 1 year, but still not seen a working answer to the question, to open up AutoCAD .dwg file, the easiest way is to download free dwg viewer, DWGSee is one of the best solutions, this is a lite and fast dwg viewer, browse, view, measure, print DWG, DXF, DWF files. Supports AutoCAD drawing format from R2.5 to the latest version 2010. This program does not request AutoCAD, no need of any acknowledge of AutoCAD, just basic windows mouse clicks, file open, file print, etc. This program still works fine even 21 days free trial period expired, just simply click and ignore the trial messages when it starts up. Hope this helps… Steve

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    Harron_K_Appleman
    Inspiring
    August 12, 2010

    Autodesk (makers of AutoCAD) offers their own free DWG/DXF viewer: DWG TrueView.

    It works well and has built-in plot to PDF capability (although you can also print to Adobe PDF if you have Acrobat). It's true freeware -- no trial period imposed.

    (Windows only)

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    DWG_wizard
    Participant
    August 13, 2010

    Right, Autodesk DWG TrueView is the best ever 2D and 3D drawing viewer

    program, and it's always free, DWGSee is poor on 3D and no 3D object

    rotation, I am still running DWGSee because it takes less memory and hard

    drive, my computer was bought 3 to 4 years ago,

    Steve,

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    Wade_Zimmerman1
    Inspiring
    August 11, 2009

    Tell him to dumb it down or as was stated make a pdf or or an eps. File but tell him to dumb it down.

    It might also be better to each sheet saved ass a different file that way you will easily be able to locate what you want and it will not be confusing.

    RogerPaine
    RogerPaine
    Participating Frequently
    August 11, 2009

    Ask him if he can export as pdf

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