AutoCAD to CorelDraw Big Issue

[boingaon]

Hello everyone,

 

I have been given access to an Epilog laser cutter, and I need to get my Autocad 3D models from Inventor 2013 to CorelDraw x5 so that I can cut the pieces on the cutter.

 

All the documentation I find says that CorelDraw can accept DWF and DWG files. Whenever I try to open or import these files into CorelDraw, I get errors like,

 

• "the file is corrupted" (PDFs)
  

 

• "either the file is not importable using the selected filter, or this format is not supported" (DWF)
  

 

• blank page (DWG)
  

When I try to open a DWG file in CorelDraw, it asks me what 3D projection I want, scaling, and whether I want to auto-reduce nodes. But after I click okay, I get a blank page.

 

 

 

This is dumb....

[the ber]

Do you have access to regular AutoCAD? You could try sending a DWG from regular AutoCAD to CorelDraw, to see if that works. I believe there may be (or used to be) some difference between Inventor-DWG and AutoCAD-DWG. Just a guess.

[fuccaro]

Try to save back in an earlier DWG format.

[samchums26]

export the drawing to eps format

[Quik&Easy]

Try to save back in an earlier DWG format.

 

I'd go with this, but also try an earlier DXF file format back save. You could then save that to an earlier DWG and see if that works.

[f700es]

export the drawing to eps format

 

I'd say this or perhaps use the flat shot command on your 3d models to get a 2D image of the 3d model you are trying to bring into Corel. Adobe Illustrator will open dwgs as well but I am not sure how it does with 3D information. In fact I will try this with Illustrator and see how it does.

[f700es]

OK not sure this will help for Corel but in Illustrator CS5 your dwg will need to be in r2007 format. Illustrator will place a 2D file as you'd expect and it will place a 3D as a wireframe in the current view that you saved it in.

Sure not the same app but they are similar.