Very frustrated with trying to save a dwg as a dxf.

[eldon]

Try this file. I took your file and used a lisp on it to delete the reference to the Geocomp.shx file.

Or possibly you could copy the Geocomp.shx file to the PocketGIS.

[eldon]

Another solution that I found, is that when you come to save as a DXF, find the option where you can select objects only.

[Treehugger]

Still will not allow me to explode all objects. But thanks for trying!

[eldon]

I can't imagine what you are trying to do, because that file contained entities only - lines, circles, arcs and text. There was nothing left to explode

[Treehugger]

Hmmm. Thanks. Well I don't know why it wont load into Pocket GIS.
I'll have to contact the Pocket GIS people!

Thanks

[eldon]

Looking more closely at the drawing, there are some features which I think are unusual.

For example, the contour lines are made up of individual lines 0.3 long

Look at the tree canopies. They are polylines made up of very short lengths.

There are 20779 entities in the drawing. My survey drawings are much less. Perhaps your pocket machine is being overloaded. I think you will have to contact the Pocket people, give them your file and see how they would do it, and then let us all know.

[Treehugger]

Cheers. I will look into it.

[Treehugger]

I spoke to the resellers of Pocket GIS and sent them a copy of the drawing.
They used a free CAD package to open the drawing, explode all the objects and save as a R12 dxf file. They were then able to load it.
I asked them to send me the file to see if I could do it. It uploaded fine to my own Pocket GIS package. So out of curiosity I opened it in AutoCAD 2010 and then did a SAVE AS and renamed the file and chose AUTOCAD R12/L2 DXF from the "files of type" drop down box. I noticed that the file size had increased from around 3MB to 5MB! The file would not load to Pocket GIS. So it would appear that it is AutoCAD that is creating the problem.

Any ideas?

[Treehugger]

This is a follow up thread to: Very frustrated with trying to save a dwg as a dxf.
AutoCAD appears to be corrupting the file somehow
I spoke to the resellers of Pocket GIS and sent them a copy of the drawing.
They used a free CAD package to open the drawing, explode all the objects and save as a R12 dxf file. They were then able to load it.
I asked them to send me the file to see if I could do it. It uploaded fine to my own Pocket GIS package. So out of curiosity I opened it in AutoCAD 2010 and then did a SAVE AS and renamed the file and chose AUTOCAD R12/L2 DXF from the "files of type" drop down box. I noticed that the file size had increased from around 3MB to 5MB! The file would not load to Pocket GIS. So it would appear that it is AutoCAD that is creating the problem.

Any ideas?

[Treehugger]

The GIS package I am trying to load the file into cannot handle objects so they have to be exploded. It would appear that AutoCAD will not allow me to explode the tree canopies and text in the drawing. Is there any way around this?