zokan Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 I have auto-cad 2000i. I created a dxf file in Adobe Illustrator and when I try to open the DXF file with Auto-Cad I just get a blank screen. Is there a setting or something I need to change to see the image? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 Is there an option in Illustrator to save the DXF file to a particular AutoCAD release or version such as R12 or 2000? I'm assuming you just went to File > Open in AutoCAD to open the DXF file that was created right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zokan Posted December 21, 2009 Author Share Posted December 21, 2009 Illustrator gives the following option: Save as type: AutoCad Interchange File (*.DXF) Yes I used File > Open in AutoCad to open the DXF file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkmcswain Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 Can you open the DXF file in notepad? How large is the file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdbdesign Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 Did you try to change color of layer to more visual? Or try to export to *.dwg? What version of Illustrator? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zokan Posted December 21, 2009 Author Share Posted December 21, 2009 If I open it in notepad I get: 0 SECTION 2 HEADER 9 $ACADVER 1 AC1018 9 $ACADMAINTVER 70 0 9 $DWGCODEPAGE 3 ASCII 9 $INSBASE 10 0.0 20 0.0 30 0.0 9 $EXTMIN 10 1.000000000000000E+20 20 1.000000000000000E+20 30 1.000000000000000E+20 9 $EXTMAX 10 -1.000000000000000E+20 20 -1.000000000000000E+20 30 -1.000000000000000E+20 9 $LIMMIN plus more but it's all gibberish to me 8( File is 80kb tried *DWG but said it was not a compatible version Illustrator CS3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdbdesign Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 AC1018 need to upgrade your Autocad version to 2008 or export to 2000 from Illustrator ( not sure about export version ) Or use any converter to convert it to older version if export save in higher than 2000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldon Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 Perhaps one solution is to install DwgTrueView, open up the DXF and convert down to 2000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zokan Posted December 21, 2009 Author Share Posted December 21, 2009 okay thanks I'll give that a try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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