[Tuglist] Figures in tex from AutoCAD
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Wed, 4 Sep 2002 06:11:56 +0530 (IST)
> What is the right way to include figures in "tex" file which are
> prepared in AutoCad. I tried by exporting to Encapsulated PS ( .eps )
> format. The only problem is that lines are very thin. How to improve
> this?
One way of doing it is to edit the eps file. But one should know a little bit of postscript language. There may be lines which start with /LT0, /LT1 ... by modifying these lines you could change the color, thickness etc. of each line.
> I wish I could open exported file ( in dxf format ) in xFig, but I
> could not find import feature in xFig. In other softwares like "dia"
> and "Qcad" dxf file could not be opened with perfect results.
If you can export to tgif format (extension obj) you open your file in tgif and all the modifications are juch a click away. (From GNUPLOT you can export to tgif format.) You can modify color, line thickness, conversion of dash lines to solid and adding extra text including symbols, subscript, superscript, rotating text.. You can export your tgif file into many formats. tgif is free for Linux.
Thanks
Satheesh