Re: Intellicad-Autocad compatibility

Looks like a steel marking plan with a number for each member, on or 
above the member in each case... it looks right. It still be caused by 
the version of Icad rather than the brand (which ver?) or possibly have 
something to do with fonts in your system, that's why I asked about Arial.

Jerry G wrote:
> So it appears that it is a Progecad problem? When you viewed it, were 
> the text items aligned in a single row or were they in various locations

> on the page with all having their own y coordinate, being adjacent to 
> lines in the rtrusstc layer? When I use Progecad I get all the text, but

> the y-coord becomes the same for all text in the inserted dxf.
> 
> jg wrote:
>> It comes up ok in Bricscad v7. I noticed the text font is called arial 
>> although it uses the txt font. TTF's have caused problems in older 
>> Icad versions, but I don't think they do now. Could it be looking for 
>> Arial and substituting txt in your system?
>>
>> Jerry G wrote:
>>> I have attached a small dxf (64kb) with that problem. It's not a case 
>>> of can it be fixed, I know I can fix it by using AcmeCad converter, 
>>> but rather why go the extra step when I already have an older version 
>>> of Autocad that handles it fine. The problem may eventually be 
>>> eliminated as the company that writes our software has been pointed 
>>> to the Intellicad consortium so that they can offer a more complete 
>>> package that would not require us, and their other customers, to have 
>>> to buy a 3rd party program like Autocad or Intellicad to finish 
>>> drawings.
>>>
>>> jg wrote:
>>>> It should be easy to list the text and check what it is in the dwg 
>>>> file after dxfin-ing. dxf's are not very hard to decifer except they 
>>>> are very big to find anything in. If it is only the label text that 
>>>> would be a good clue. If you want to email a file I would be 
>>>> interested to have a look.
>>>> jgaunt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>