topic Re: DXF conversion in Autodesk Viewers Forum

DXF conversion

Anonymous — Tue, 17 May 2011 12:44:47 GMT

We have a customer who is sending us DXF files that we are unable to read as we have not upgraded our AutoCAD. We are unable to upgrade at this time. Is there a way in TrueView to convert a DXF to lower versions of AutoCAD? If not, does anyone know of a utility to do so? We do not want to go back to the customer and ask them to resend all of their files if we do not have to.

Thank you in advance,

Paul Silzle

Re: DXF conversion

pendean — Tue, 17 May 2011 13:08:48 GMT

It's best to "fess up" to your client and ask for a lower version of DXF: it's a volatile format to start with and adding a third party translator can make it worse.

It not, there are many DXF conversion tools you can buy and use: try a Google search.

Re: DXF conversion

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 06:58:39 GMT

so it is not possible to use trueview for convertion to dxf?

Re: DXF conversion

pendean — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 21:29:38 GMT

Try it, it's free 🙂

Re: DXF conversion

ukdxb012 — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 21:54:19 GMT

Unfortunately not, it will let you convert DWG's to earlier versions but not DXF i'm afraid.

I'd simply set up protocols with the client for exchange formats, agree how you will distribute the data, in what formats etc then you wont have the heartache of having to convert.