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Exporting Drawing Views
You can save your 2D drawing views directly to Mechanical Desktop versions
other than Release 6 as DWG, DWT, or DXF files. You can export the entire
current layout, including all views and geometry, or you can select views and
entities to export.
The Export Drawing Views dialog box provides options to:
Convert views at true scale (1:1)
Convert circular and linear splines that project to 2D arcs, circles and lines
Flatten all source data, including any 3D autoCAD entities, or flatten only
MDT objects
The export options in the Export Drawing Views dialog box enable you to
export drawing views to:
A new layout in the current file
An external file in either model space or in layout
Past and present versions of AutoCAD and DXF
Usually, only one base view is shown in a drawing view. With the True Scale
option turned on, a warning is displayed if two or more base views are shown
with different scales. You export base views separately, whether or not they are
scaled by the same factor. In the exporting process, isometric and detail views
are scaled by the same factor as the base view.
In this exercise, you save your drawing file to AutoCAD 2000.