Illustrator to Autocad Help

[slammedxonair]

Hello everybody I have been trying to convert a customers adobe illustrator .eps files over to Autocad for a couple days now so I can cut them on my Plasma table. I have tryed a ton of different things and searched all over with no answers. I just need to get this going asap.

I go into Illustrator and export as a dxf and even dwg it converts the lines fine but, when I open it in Autocad 2006 the drawing is no where close to scale and way to big. So every time I try to scale it down in Autocad or even take a diminsion off of it to see where I'm at Autocad just freezes up and will not do anything.

Does anybody know what I need to do preferably export at normal size if possable. Thanks for any help I just really need to get this project going.

[ger21]

Can you post a sample I can try in AutoCAD?

I've used this in the past to convert eps to .dxf for AutoCAD.

http://www.pstoedit.net/

[bcwan]

try to export it from Illustrator as wmf file and then import it to Autocad with WMFIN command

[slammedxonair]

Originally Posted by bcwan try to export it from Illustrator as wmf file and then import it to Autocad with WMFIN command

it opened but it only has 1 point where it was inserted, it wont let me check dimensions or anything.

[slammedxonair]

Originally Posted by ger21 Can you post a sample I can try in AutoCAD? I've used this in the past to convert eps to .dxf for AutoCAD. http://www.pstoedit.net/

i downloaded that and installed it but theres no program or anything. i have no idea how that works lol.

[ger21]

Oops. While pstoedit is what gives you the .dxf, you actually need Ghostscript. Ghostscript actually uses pstoedit. You might want to also download GSView, which is a front end for Ghostscript, which if I recall is a command line program. It's a bit tricky to set up, but works well once set up.

http://www.ghostscript.com/awki/Ghostscript_Website

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/index.htm

[slammedxonair]

Well after hours of working on this I finally found this!
http://www.baby-universe.co.jp/en/pl...cts/exdxf-pro/

You can use the trial 30 times and then its like $90 to buy it. It worked great! so if I keep having stuff like this come up I'll probably end up buying it.

Thanks everybody and this may be some good information for anybody who needs it in the future.

[bcwan]

perhabs i don't understand what you exactly mean but

exporting from Illustrator to WMF (not DWG or DXF) is to have an the drawing outline and not filled with hatchs witch you cant explode in AutoCAD.

and

when in ACAD use the wmfin command and that will let you to specify the insertion point and a scale for the x axis and y axis and a rotation angle too.

you can specify the insertion point and then accept the scales as 1 by using just enter, enter and then you can explode the block and you can scale it as you need after.

hope this will help, good luck