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DXF, DWG and DWF translation
A number of changes have been made to improve the translation to and from DXF and DWG data. These include
General changes
MicroGDS now reads and writes AutoCAD 2010 DXF and DWG files. MicroGDS also reads and writes mesh entities and section objects ('live' sections only).
Import and export of OLE data has been added to DXF/DWG translation (for AutoCAD 14 and later formats).
Import
• If a DXF/DWG file has empty layer names, MicroGDS now allocates names before opening the file.
• DXF/DWG import now processes left/centre/right/justified justification settings for paragraphs in multi-line text (for AutoCAD 2008 and later formats).
• Increased the use of plot styles for setting colours of phases, including phase overrides.
• A new setting has been added to the AutoCAD Import dialog box to specify the location in which to look for XREFs. The default is to look for XREFs in the same folder as the referencing file.
Export
• DWF export of photos with shaded views now correctly draws photos whose view has been extended (by changing the boundary). Previously, photos did not draw outside the photo's stored view.
• In general, DWF export has been improved in many areas, (e.g. Symbol filled linestyles are now written to DWF) although gradient and raster fills are currently not supported.
• Exporting rotated shaded views to DWF has been improved.
• Photo clipping for DWF export has been improved to cope with nested photos.
• DWF export of raster primitives has been optimised to reduce the size of the DWF file.
• The Export to AutoCAD dialog box has a new option to omit screen-only phases from the resulting DXF/DWF file.
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