.mi to .dxf(dwg) translation

[pcushion]

I am curious to know if any is having troubles translating from .mi to .dxf in OSDD ver. 13.0.
I am able to translate using ver. 11.6, and have compared the dxf.con files and there appears to be no changes.

Still, when I try to open a file in AutoCAD 2005 that was coverted in v13.0, I get a Fatal Error message. When I open a file converted using v 11.6, it opens with no issues.

Thanks for the help.
Paul.

[Thom Ivancso]

Hello Paul,

Are you using OSDD 13.00 or 13.20A, seems in 13.00 there was reported issue with converting MI > DWG that was fixed with 13.20A.

This issue was reported to be with OSDD 13.00 and HP-UX 11.11, but it could have effected the Windows platform as well, I do not have AutoCAD 2005 to test against.


Cheers
Thom

[pcushion]

Hi Thom,

I am using ver.13.00 on a Windows XP Platform.

I guess I will have to request that I be updated to 13.2.

Thanks for the help.
Paul.

[Thom Ivancso]

Hello Paul,

Send me your email address and I can send you a converted file for you to test in Acad 2005 from OSDD 13.20A if that helps.

Cheers
Thom

[Wolfgang]

Hi Paul,

May be you can tell us the contents of the 'fatal error' message?

By Default the DXF translator is writing dxf version
> Default value is AC1015 (AutoCAD 2000/2002).

Is ACAD 2005 not able to read in files with that version?

May be you can give the translation a chance via command line?


dxfdwg -o -t AC1018 -f the-file.mi


-t specifies the DXF version , see dxfdwg/readme.htm#426 for more information.

May be you can run a 'diff' on the 2 different DXF files you have created? If you don't know what it is... forget about the question.