I have a question about inserting dwg files (Autocad 2013) into layout. I cannot even see dwgs as insertable content on the insert pop-up window. And then when selecting ‘all files’ then a dwg the error message saying unable to insert file type pops up.
DWG Imports One reason that drawing in 2D at scale is important is that a lot of LayOut users are trying to work with imported AutoCAD geometry via the DWG format. So in this release, we"re introducing LayOut"s ability to import DWG files as native LayOut entities. DWG projects import at scale and support the pages, titleblocks, and blocks that your partners have created. Even better, LayOut users can now help themselves to the vast world of free DWG libraries.
I’m attempting to save as a dxf, but I have a ton of different ones to choose from, binary, ASCII, and for each of those I have a choice of R12, 13, 14, then 2000-2014. Does it matter which one I choose?
Hi Velina, sounds like you have worked this out but if you have issues like this in the future it is a result of an entity that is at a different z height in the original cad file.
In Acad you can run the ‘flatten’ command or DraftSight select all then from the properties panel change the z heights (if varies) to 0.