I can't open a DWG file in Arch 18 education version

[Anonymous]

I want to be able to trace from a plan drawing made in DWG. I don't have any other program to open the dwg file on my mac. All i have managed to see from the dwgfile is the scale ruler in the bottom corner.
help

[Laszlo Nagy]

Maybe it was in Paperspace in Autocad which is translated into a Layout in ARCHICAD.

[Anonymous]

ok! i didn't make the dwgfile in Autocad and don't have the program yet. but i will have it soon and i hope i will be able to resave it perhaps.

i tried downloading a dwg viewer to open the file but all i could see then was a row of text from the document. when i browse to open the dwg file and see it in preview mode in the browsing window i can see its full of coulours and lines so its obviously full of information which i haven't been able to open.

[rgarand]

The dwg is looking for an XREF file and can not find it. You will have to open the dwg and relink the XREF file, then update the dwg within your drawing manager.

If you do NOT have this particular XREF file, you will need to get it from whoever sent the original dwg. Have them send you an etransmit file, this will ensure that you get everything from the original file, i.e. fonts, XREF files, etc.

[rgarand]

...actually I think it is looking for 2 dwg XREF files.