Export DWG from Drawing

[bmxjeff]

Hey,

I've been asked to Export DWG's instead of PDF drawings. I though... piece of cake. When I do, I only get dimensions and cuts aways, no model. The important part : )

I've tried it from Fusion and on from A360. Same thing.

Thanks!

[HughesTooling · Accepted solution]

There are lots of posts on this. The DWG can only be read by AutoCAD as the views are in drawing space. If you have autocad you can use the Exportlayout command to extract the views as a drawing non autodesk programs can read.

Mark

[bmxjeff]

Man, all of a sudden I have 100 or more prints that are good for nothing. That hurts. So, I need to buy AutoCad to use Fusion? : ) Maybe I can get a trial?! Is there a free version that can do this?

Might put a disclaimer on that export option "Does not work" haha  

Thanks!

[HughesTooling]

Some people have luck using DWG trueview and saving to an older format then open in draftsight. I haven't been able to try this as I can't install Draftsight on any of my computers, install fails for some reason.

Mark

[bmxjeff]

Well, Draftsight is Daasult Systems... so. Figures. : ) E-Drawings crashes every time it's closed on Mac. 

Looks like they have a Beta Draftsight for Mac. I'll give that a shot!

Thanks again!

[HughesTooling]

I think you're stuck if you are using a mac. Don't think DWG Trueview is available on mac and seem to remember exportlayout isn't available in the mac version of AutoCAD or AutoCAD lt.

Mark

[bmxjeff]

OKay,

I found a way. cadsofttools.com has a PDF to DWG converter. (backward) It works too! I'm sure the scale is off, but not hard to fix. 

Thanks,

[HughesTooling]

Rhino can import PDFs but found the quality was quite bad, think it's bad in the DWG as well. Might be why they make it so hard to open and edit the DWGs‽

Mark

[bmxjeff]

Mark,

Got it. Fusion > Parallels > True View > DWG that is readable. I'm tired. 

Thanks for your help! 

[MJHyne]

This is so helpful, you've just solved something I've been wrestling with for far too long. Thank you!

Still don't understand why AutoDesk couldn't just add a .dwg or .dxf option to the list of export formats when you right click a component, but stuff it, this covers me just as well.