SATOUT doesn't seem to be a valid command in AutoCAD 2007. They also used to have an option to save as an IGES file but apparently that is no longer available in this version of ACAD.

I attached a sample boilerplate plan that is our autocad template file at work (the large plan has all of the linetypes, symbols, etc that we commonly use, this is just a small portion of it).

It doesn't seem to read when imported into MoI. I guess it would be nicer for people who don't have illustrator to be able to skip that step altogether. I'm not sure if this PDF problem is a common one or just something specific to the way that AutoCAD exports the lineweights etc...

Again thanks for your help. It's very very nice to be able to directly speak to the developer.

Hi Rado, thanks for posting the example file.

MoI's PDF importer code had a bug where it was not handling a particular kind of nested declaration properly which the AutoCAD output happened to use.

It's fixed up now for the next beta so that MoI will be able to read these PDFs directly.


re: AutoCAD SATOUT, well that is really a bummer that they took that out. Yeah they also a long time ago had IGESOUT as well but that one was removed quite a while ago.

- Michael

Thanks for taking a look at the file. It will be nice to be able to skip the illustrator step.

It's really quite weird how (with autocad) they've added so much functionality in some areas while a the same time pairing down the export options. You would think that they would want to keep those exporters to allow for greater interoperability between their vast product suite.