Preparing an AutoCAD drawing for insertion into D-Tools SI (Visio) - D-Tools Forum

avzone · 08-27-2007, 03:23 PM

I'm just curious if anyone requests architects to further prepare an AutoCAD file for Visio over and above the standard. In other words, do you ask them to create a file for each floor or drawing page? Do you request they hide some or all of the "clutter" (layers) that we'd be turning off anyway? What are some other request you make to prepare a file for import other than the standard?

Victorc · 04-02-2009, 05:36 PM

As long you get the dwg file save as R14 or 2000, it will work. The idea of turning off some layer is just to make clean and easy to see the layout. The idea of having the layouts in separate pages is, when you insert a DWG file into Visio, it will bring everything that is turn on (that can be see) from the AutoCAD file, and you may not need all the layouts (floors) to show in one single Visio page. Now, if you have AutoCAD, you can make a copy of the file (if something comes wrong) and change anything you need, such as turn off layers, separate the floors to single dwg file, purge the file from unnecessary things and save the file as 2000 dwg.
If an Architect does this for you, mean he is really cool!

07-20-2010, 05:39 PM

I've saved my dwg as R14 but when I try to insert on d-tool, I can't change the scale. What I did was first, I made a x-ref(bind) and saved as R14 then closed the file. Then opened D-tool on existing file and inserted test tab to see if dwg has been saved correctly. When I insert cad dwg, pre-defined scale box is either grayed out or if not, cad dwg is not showing on d-tool when I click ok after select on pre-defined scale.
I am total d-tool rooky. Please help.