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Insert an AutoCAD drawing into a Word document
Rather than converting your AutoCAD drawings into BMP files
to insert in a Word document, wouldn't you like to simply insert the AutoCAD
drawing itself? Well it's easier than you might think.
Follow these steps:
1. Verify that
AutoCAD isn't running.
2. Open the
Word document where you want to insert the AutoCAD drawing.
3. Select
Insert/Object.
4. From the
Object dialog box, select AutoCAD Drawing and click OK.
The AutoCAD window will open.
5. In AutoCAD,
change the display background to the white if necessary.
6. Because you
can't open a drawing, you must select Insert/Block, then choose the file you
want.
7. Once you've found
the AutoCAD drawing that you want to insert inside the Word document, select
File/Update Microsoft Word. The AutoCAD drawing you selected now appears on
your Word document.
9. Close
AutoCAD.
Submitted by:
Jaime Mendoza [Japmz@hotmail.com]
Another method of inserting an AutoCAD drawing into a Word document
Here's another way to insert an AutoCAD drawing into a Word
document that offers you some added flexibility. In AutoCAD, select
File/Export, choose Metafile (*.wmf) from the Save As Type list, then click
Save. Now zoom in to the area you want to see, because your display is the
framed image in Word. Select the objects that you want to export and press
Enter.
Now you can open Word, select Insert/Picture, choose the WMF
file you just created, then click Insert. You're file is now inserted in Word.
If you want to change the size of the image, use the frame handles. To crop or
change the line colors, double- clicking on the picture opens the picture
editing mode. From here you can crop the picture using the margin rulers. To
change the colors of the entities, click on the select drawing objects tool,
select the entities, then set the line color or other qualities as desired.
Click Close picture to return to Word text editing mode.
This tip was
contributed by Rick Creuzburg, Creuzburgr@aecl.ca.
Using OLE to insert an AutoCAD drawing into Word
In an earlier tip, we told you how to insert an AutoCAD
drawing into a Word document as an object. Here's another easy way to insert an
AutoCAD drawing using OLE. Open the drawing in AutoCAD, then copy the drawing
(or whichever part of the drawing you need) to the Clipboard.
Now open Word and select Edit/Paste Special. You should see
the AutoCAD Drawing Object in the Paste Special dialog box. With this selection
highlighted, click OK. Now position the drawing in the document by dragging it
to the desired location. In addition, you can use the Crop tool on the Picture
toolbar to
get rid of excess white space, and drag the corner handles
to expand or shrink the image to suit your document. Using this method also
allows you to edit the embedded drawing by double-clicking on the
drawing in the Word document.
This tip was
contributed by Rob Platt.
Mucky Balls
If your cursor no longer moves smoothly across the screen (e.g., as you move the mouse, the cursor hangs briefly and then shoots across the screen), then you probably need to clean your mouse's innards. Fortunately, the procedure isn't as disgusting as it sounds.
Many books tell you to clean the mouse ball, but the problem usually results from dirty mouse ball rollers. Here's how to clean them:-
- Turn the mouse over and remove the little cover that keeps the ball
from falling out
- Remove the mouse ball. If it does happen to be dirty, clean it.
- Look inside the hole where the mouse ball lives. You should see
three little rollers, and they'll probably be caked with crud. Use a dull,
non-abrasive object (e.g., the end of a small screwdriver or you finger
nail if you can bear it.) to clean all of the crud off.
- Replace the mouse ball and cover.
- Whack the eraser dust, potato chip crumbs, and anything else off of
your mouse pad (so that you don't have to perform this same procedure two
days later).
If the cursor still doesn't move smoothly,
then you might have an obsolete or corrupted mouse driver, a defective mouse,
or an IRQ conflict. In this case call IT support.
This tip was contributed by Element K
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Change The
Background Of Raster Images
If you need to use a scanned
raster image of an old manual drawing as a background for a new AutoCAD
drawing, note that a white background can be a problem, just because new stuff
is not clear or you need to plot in black and white. You can fix the background
in a few simple steps.
Bring your image into any
photo editing program such as PhotoShop or even one of those free photo editing
programs you can download from TUCOWS.COM, save it as a negative (or invert
colours) image (TIF, JPG,
GIF, or BMP format), then
insert in AutoCAD. You now have an image that looks more like you just drew it
yourself.
This tip was contributed by Len
Nemirovsky
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