Autocad Drawing to OLE Object

[Hummy]

Hi everyone, I use Autocad to make a home, offices, etc. designs in 2D, usually I export the drawings in wmf and I paste in Powerpoint, the lines, scale and details are ok, since I send the proyects to others office departments (to a contability department for example), many of this areas not use Autocad program (and they haven't!), so I want to export the draws in a OLE objects (like native drawings of MS office), and they can make modifications without the use of Autocad, if the scale changes, is not a problem, because I have to redraw the proyects.

Somebody know how can make this?

Excuse my bad english

Thank in advice.

[rkmcswain]

Hi everyone, I use Autocad to make a home, offices, etc. designs in 2D, usually I export the drawings in wmf and I paste in Powerpoint, the lines, scale and details are ok, since I send the proyects to others office departments (to a contability department for example), many of this areas not use Autocad program (and they haven't!), so I want to export the draws in a OLE objects (like native drawings of MS office), and they can make modifications without the use of Autocad, if the scale changes, is not a problem, because I have to redraw the proyects.

Somebody know how can make this?

Excuse my bad english

Thank in advice.

If you paste an an OLE object, then they will need AutoCAD to open and edit. I suppose you could paste into Paint, then put a BMP OLE object into PowerPoint, but the quality will suffer. Why can't they edit the WMF with a program designed to do so?

[Hummy]

Hi everyone, I use Autocad to make a home, offices, etc. designs in 2D, usually I export the drawings in wmf and I paste in Powerpoint, the lines, scale and details are ok, since I send the proyects to others office departments (to a contability department for example), many of this areas not use Autocad program (and they haven't!), so I want to export the draws in a OLE objects (like native drawings of MS office), and they can make modifications without the use of Autocad, if the scale changes, is not a problem, because I have to redraw the proyects.

Somebody know how can make this?

Excuse my bad english

Thank in advice.

If you paste an an OLE object, then they will need AutoCAD to open and edit. I suppose you could paste into Paint, then put a BMP OLE object into PowerPoint, but the quality will suffer. Why can't they edit the WMF with a program designed to do so?


Yes, you right. If I use BMP, I can manipulate one object draw, but I can´t edit the draw in native MS Office draw. The interest I have to do the OLE object is if I have a measurement or a draw element, they can change it the values of the measurement or even change (a proportional way, scale not matter) the draw. without recurring a Autocad program, because they only have MS Office. In a few words I want try to do the draw (Autocad drawing) in to a native drawing of MS Office, like Word, Excel, etc. So if I mail the draw, they can make changes using a text box, lines, etc. They think if I send to them the draws in a WMF, only can put text dialogs in draws, and this is a wrong interpretation for them and can produce confussions or bad interpretation.

I try to make tests using Illustrator, and then copy to a Word application, but don´t work well, since the paste works like a block and not like a individual objects. The quality of draw is not a problem, because when the proyect is terminated the draws have the correction in paper plot and the autocad file.

I appreciate your help in this.

Regards