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I have a colleague that has sent me (multiple times) a dwg file done in AutoCad that I can't open. It keeps saying "the file ....dwg is an unknown format that can not be opened". I have CS5 and I thought Illustrator easily handled dwg files. Any clues as to what the problem could be?
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If there are :things: in the dwg file thats not supported or a latest version of cad and the dwg file is holding 3d info it wont open... They must back save the DWG file for you.
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If possible, have them either save to an older DWG format as Grant mentions or simply as a DXF. Failing that, they can export out as a PDF or at least print to one.
Take care, Mike
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Get him to export AutoCad to PDF. That should be no problem.
Then you can easily open the PDFs in Illie.
My architect colleagues do this for me frequently.
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Thanks for all of the help folks.