Hello everyone,
im new here and this is my first post. I am using Autocad 2014 and im trying to save a dwg to dxf but it keeps on saving and saving and saving, it never finishes saving it. i hope you guys understand what im talking about. I need to specifically save it to Autocad R12 dxf format. thank you.
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Solved by john.vellek. Go to Solution.
Have you tried to AUDIT and PURGE your document before saving to DXF?
CADnoob
Hi Planning_Tech
Try saving the drawing down to the oldest version you can first and then try to create the DXF. Running Audit and -Purge will also help you to clean up the drawing. You could even wblock the entire contents of the drawing to a new file to see if that helps with the issue.
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I've tried the PURGE and AUDIT command and also saving it to a lower version and then saving it to dxf and NOTHING! Still doing the same thing. It just keeps.....saving........saving.....0%. The reason i cannot use a different dxf format is because the program where im importing it, does not recognize any format but R12 dxf.
Hi @Anonymous,
Can you attach the file so I can take a look at it for you?
Hi @Anonymous,
I ran EXPORTTOAUTOCAD to clean the drawing file up. After that I was able to create the DXF file
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Hi @Anonymous,
I am glad that it was such an easy fix. Your drawing had a bunch of DGN definitions in it which is likely what caused your problem. Exporttoautocad is a great command for fixing such issues.
Hello to anyone!
After reading the comments about how this particular problem was solved, I can say that in my case the same did not happen. I have version 23 and when I go to save to dxf the file is finally in format dwg again. And the symbol of dxf doesn't show. Still looks like dwg.
Any ideas?
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