X8 Autocad compatibility

[Jones_Drafting]

Hi,

 

Having difficulty importing dwg from autocad

 

Which versions of autocad are compatible with X8?

[DavidJPotter]

All versions of AutoCAD in terms of .dxf or .dwg imports are supported. What is not supported is .dwg files with "Xrefs" in them. That may be your problem. Make sure the .dwg is exported directly from "Model Space" within AutoCAD and not "Paper Space" (paper space is similar to our .layout files and is scaled to a target paper size and not at real world scale as in a plan file)

 

DJP

[Jones_Drafting]

Thanks David.

 

We'll see if that works.

 

Cris

 

 

[Jones_Drafting]

Thanks David.

 

We'll see if that works.

 

Cris

 

Still having difficulty, after sender says he exported for Autocad 2000. Not sure if he heeded the instruction to export from model space. I have inquired.

 

I'm attaching file here. Can you open it?

 

2359-GRADING DESIGN EXPORT acad2000 3-10-17.dwg

[DavidJPotter]

I can open it in AutoCAD True View (see attached images taken from AutoCAD True View 2014) but not in X8 due to the way it was exported from AutoCAD (see image 1.jpg) because of the "SHX" missing files which your AutoCAD guy failed to also export

 

DJP

[Alaskan_Son]

It imports into X8 without any problems for me...

 

 

Now finding the useful part of the drawing was a different story.  Not sure what exactly you need, but here's the plan file.  I added an arrow to show you where I found what I think is probably what you're looking for.

DWG.plan