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wastewater
14th Feb 2008, 03:09 pm
We are useing AutCAD 2008 and we save everything back to 2000 because we have to send out drawings all the time and not everyone upgrades. Well we have been told that when someone opens our drawings in a lower version of AutoCAD they can not see the arrow head and the shoulder of any of our leaders. The text is fine and the dimensions are fine but the arrow head and shoulder of the leaders are very small. Is there a variable to fix this or is ti becouse of the annotation scale. Hope to find a fix soon.

Thanks.
SLW210
14th Feb 2008, 03:41 pm
If you are using annotation scaling in your drawings, I imagine that would be the culprit. 2000 does not have annotation scaling. What type of leaders are you using, Multileader, Qleader or Dimleader?

Why not save as 2007 format and inform your clients to use DWG TrueView (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=6703438&siteID=123112) from Autodesk or DWGGateway (http://www.dwggateway.com/) from solid works to open the drawings, they are both free.
wastewater
14th Feb 2008, 03:46 pm
We use qleader. the reason is becouse most of them have autocad just an older version.
SLW210
14th Feb 2008, 03:50 pm
We use qleader. the reason is becouse most of them have autocad just an older version.

No matter what version they have, they can open any version of AutoCAD DWGs with the above mentioned programs. When I used 2000i not long ago, I found DWGGateway to work quite well at opening newer formats.
Ritch7
14th Feb 2008, 03:58 pm
SLW210 (aka the hulk)
hey i just wanted to ask what one is better DWG TrueView (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=6703438&siteID=123112) or DWGGateway (http://www.dwggateway.com/)? because we've just done a contract with a customer who has 2000 and were running on 08? so we'll need to be sending them drwgs soon. cheers buddy
SLW210
14th Feb 2008, 04:09 pm
SLW210 (aka the hulk)
hey i just wanted to ask what one is better DWG TrueView (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=6703438&siteID=123112) or DWGGateway (http://www.dwggateway.com/)? because we've just done a contract with a customer who has 2000 and were running on 08? so we'll need to be sending them drwgs soon. cheers buddy

With DWG TrueView, you can open the drawing and review it, but will need to save back or convert it to the version you have to open in AutoCAD. With DWGGateway, you open the drawing right in your AutoCAD for reviewing and modifying.