topic Re: AutoCAD to SVG bad text formatting in AutoCAD Forum

AutoCAD to SVG bad text formatting

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 12:43:55 GMT

I am currently trying to convert a .dwg to .svg, and then replace text fields on the svg with new text. However, the svg remembers the position of each letter in the svg file, so when inputting new text, the new text is spaced according to how the (different) text in the svg was spaced. I want to make it so that the svg only remembers the position of the first letter, without having to go through the svg's xml code

Re: AutoCAD to SVG bad text formatting

pendean — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:02:19 GMT

There is no built-in SVG ability: so what driver or tool or software are you using?

Re: AutoCAD to SVG bad text formatting

pendean — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:10:17 GMT

Re: AutoCAD to SVG bad text formatting

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:20:50 GMT

There isn't an excel spreadsheet, the xml of the svg file for some text looks like this:

(Had to put plain code because putting it as code ran it)

The text within angle brackets on the dwg is then changed using the svg file. What I was referencing in the question was the different coordinates for x (spaces between letters), when these are removed, the text formats correctly, but I was wondering if there was another way to fix the problem

I am converting the dwg to pdf, and then converting that pdf to svg using inkscape

Re: AutoCAD to SVG bad text formatting

TheCADnoob — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 14:22:34 GMT

Try going from Autocad to dxf and from dxf to inkscape.

Im not sure this will solve your problem but I think the dxf should be a cleaner route

edit: i just tried this and seems to solve your problem (if i understood it correctly) The text field came in as an editable text field. There was some changes in the text size but it looked as though the text insertion point was where it was in the dxf (dwg) file.

Re: AutoCAD to SVG bad text formatting

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:03:46 GMT

That's perfect thanks, it reminded me that we used dxf files when originally making the svg files, which is why the old text labels worked and the new ones didn't

Re: AutoCAD to SVG bad text formatting

lyskyfy — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 06:24:36 GMT

How to convert a .dwg to .svg. I have tried to export the svg format file but I can not find the options.

I tried export and save as. But can not found svg format.

Clould you tell me how to convert a .dwg file to .svg file.

Many Thanks.

Re: AutoCAD to SVG bad text formatting

pendean — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 12:58:04 GMT

@lyskyfy In a post above yours, it was stated https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/autocad-to-svg-bad-text-formatting/m-p/8978297#M990474

And in another post above yours https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/autocad-to-svg-bad-text-formatting/m-p/8978546#M990499

PLUS you can just help yourself online for other options to do what you need to do https://www.google.com/search?q=dwg+to+svg+converter

Good luck.