topic Re: Exporting to .WMF in AutoCAD Forum

Exporting to .WMF

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 13:04:04 GMT

I am having some trouble when I export to a .wmf file. It need to be this format because its for a fire alarm computer. When you open the file up in visio. The font is not legible. Even the round lines look like angles. I have search a ton of forums and have found no answer. Any ideas?

Re: Exporting to .WMF

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 15:29:56 GMT

Visio will open a dwg file. It's the wmf export that is causing problems when brought into Visio so skip that step and just open the dwg in Visio. Depending on your version of Visio you may need to save your dwg as autocad 2008 for Visio to be able to open it.

If you need native Visio symbols for fire alarm systems you may find our NFPA 170 set helpful:
http://www.shapesource.com/nfpa-170-fire-and-safety-plan

Here's another set that may be useful:
http://www.shapesource.com/fire-alarm-system-design

Re: Exporting to .WMF

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 13:11:05 GMT

Hello Brett, I was able to find the solution to this problem. We need the file to be converted to .wmf per the requirements of the fire alarm computer. We use Visio to see how it will look in the graphics screen of the fire alarm computer. I had an idea that one layer was throwing this whole thing off. So I highlighted the entire layout and clicked explode. tried to export again and it was perfect. Thanks again for the help. Regards, Jason Also, I realized this may have been posted in the wrong thread. If the mods see this. Feel free to move it accordingly.

Re: Exporting to .WMF

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 22:06:18 GMT

Hi,
I tried to reply to your post through the Autodesk forum but the forum said the post was not available. If you need help with this issue, you can contact me direct.

Regards,
Brett Newman

Managing Director
Visimation Inc.
425-445-5535 Mobile
www.visimation.comProfessional Serviceswww.shapesource.comVisioShapes and Add-ons

Re: Exporting to .WMF

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 01:19:26 GMT

Oops... forgot that I'd responded to this last year. For some reason I received an email today that seemed to indicate that the issue was still open. Glad you found a solution. In the future, if the alarm company's system can take it, I'd recommend using .emf (enhanced metafile) instead of .wmf (windows metafile) because it has a richer data structure and usually renders better between applications... although not always. Our go-to conversion format is actually .svg, again, if the source and target systems support it. Visio does a good job of producing and opening .svg files.

Re: Exporting to .WMF

manu-arjona — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 09:50:38 GMT

Hello, did you find any other solution for that question?

Thank you