topic Re: AutoCAD in FlexSim Forum

AutoCAD

alejandra_n2 — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 17:05:36 GMT

[ FlexSim 17.1.2 ]

Hi,

when loading the background layout from AutoCAD nothing shows up. can you The only way it shows up is by converting the file to a DWF file but when I do that is out of scale and both files are saved in feet.

Thanks!

Alejandra

Re: AutoCAD

kevin_lavely — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 17:39:41 GMT

Had same problem, figured out if you have file open in AutoCAD dwg file will not load into FlexSim

Re: AutoCAD

alejandra_n2 — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 17:57:18 GMT

Yes, that worked. The AutoCAD DWG is in feet but when I measure its seems out of scale Am I doing something wrong here? When I try to add a basicFR 5'X 2.6' its seems too small.

Re: AutoCAD

kevin_lavely — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 18:30:10 GMT

Alejandra,

Had similar problem when I inserted dwg file as background all FlexSim items came in tiny. What I did was scale AutoCAD drawing down (scale Factor 0.0254) changed units to meters. I then moved bottom left most corner to 0,0. I dimensioned with ordinate dimensions. when I bring in AutoCAD drawing to FlexSim I can then Match track lengths and locations. In FlexSim under Global Preferences Enviroment I set unit length to Meters (which I believe is default). Not sure if this is best way but it works for me.

AutoCAD File

FlexSim

Hope this helps

Re: AutoCAD

alejandra_n2 — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 18:40:35 GMT

Kevin,

Thank you Ill give it a try!

Alejandra