Exporting from plotmaker to autocad

[KeesW]

I am trying some serious exporting of a project and envy those of you who have no problems. I've created a project of 8 A3 drawings, and am publishing it in plotmaker. Wanting to export it as a DWG, I've applied the standard translator and followed the instructions very carefully (I think). Opening the drawings in Intellicad (my autocad clone), gives me a black screen showing nothing. Aha, I thought, maybe it should be in Paperspace. Going back to the translator, the Save Option only gives me Model Space and Linked XRef drawings - no paper space. Where is it??

What is really demoralising, is that the Step by Step tutorial plotmaker drawings, after I have followed exactly the same Plotmaker publishing techniques, import faultlessly into Intellicad - automatically into paper space! It also includes a Paper Space Save Option in the standard translator.

What am I missing?

[Anonymous]

Plotmaker exports your drawing in paper space. If you do not have Autocad you will not be able to see them, but that doesn't mean it hasn't published them.

When you are publishing them check your convertor, you can set the autocad file version and the units (mm, cm, etc).

Paola

[Eduardo Rolon]

Remeber that Intellicad is compatible to AutoCAD R14 so in order to see the paperspace you have to type tilemode in the command line and change the parameter from 1 to 0 or 0 to 1 and that will take you to pspace and the drawing

[Djordje]

ejrolon wrote:
Remeber that Intellicad is compatible to AutoCAD R14 so in order to see the paperspace you have to type tilemode in the command line and change the parameter from 1 to 0 or 0 to 1 and that will take you to pspace and the drawing

The parameter is a variable called tilemode; if 0 you are in modelspace, if 1 in paperspace. Type it on the command line, change and see. Zoom extents after that usually helps to see something

[Eduardo Rolon]

Thanks Djordie I was just too lazy to open AutoCAD to verify its default setting