ArchiCAD 20 DWG wont open on AutoCAD 2017

[Anonymous]

Hi!

I have this kind of problem:
My friend sent to me ArchiCAD DWG file and i tried to open it on my AutoCAD. Well Autocad only warning "this dwg file has made on non-autodesk program bla bla" and sometimes its askin shx file. When i click OK then whole AutoCAD crashes. My friend sent me shx file but it still crashes.

Have anyone got this kind of problem and solved out it?

Thx
- Lauri

[TheCADnoob · Accepted solution]

Have you tried to run RECOVER? https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/AutoC...

Open Autocad and from a blank drawing run RECOVER and see if it helps.

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

make sure you are up-to-date with your AutoCAD (AutoCAD 2017 Update 1.1)

And you can try command _RECOVER instead of directly opening the file.

If you can upload the file, maybe we get it opened.

Good luck, - alfred -

[john.vellek]

Hi Lauri,

Is it possible to attach the drawing to a post or send it to me? I am happy to look at what might be preventing opening this normally.

[Anonymous]

Hi!

And thanks for the answering, that recovery commend helped a lot and autocad doesent crash anymore.

Thanks guys!

Because you guys are so smart people i have one more question to ask. 

Once i removed one DWG file accidentally and then i have to make it again. Is there any hope to convert PDF to DWG, i have one program in my iPad and that works sometimes.

thx

- Lauri

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> Once i removed one DWG file accidentally and then i have to make it again.

SCNR .. no backup available?

>> Is there any hope to convert PDF to DWG

Starting with AutoCAD 2017 you can run command _PDFIMPORT, but that does not give you any object info back, that's just lines, arcs, circles and text. You can't get blocks, attributes, dimensions, complex linetypes, viewports, 3D geometry, ... and such CAD-specific elements AND (even more important) the PDF does not have double precision values for saving vectors, so the lines you get after import differ from the original line length.

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

Hi Alfred!

Thanks for answering, maybe next time i just run _PDFIMPORT command. And then modify lines to the right lenght.

Thx

- Lauri