#Qutro Pro To AutoCad
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We need to get some schedules from Qutro Pro to an autocadd drawing.
The primary reason is so we can get the schedules plotted. There won't be
anything else on the drawing except our title block so there is no danger
of drawing data collision. We don't need to modify the data once we get it
to the drawing it is simply graphical for output. Any Ideas?
Thanks
Tom Jerram
Tom – print your schedule to a file, then use ASCTEXT.LSP from the bonus
menu to bring the PRN file into the drawing.
You should first set a text style with a monospaced font (e.g., MONOTXT) to
make sure your columns line up.
Dave
Dave,
And if the MONOTXT look is unacceptable, Tom should download MONOSIMP from
somewhere in the DL's. I modified the Simplex font several years ago to
a fixed space format.
Gale
Gale-
If you wouldn't mind telling me, how did you go about doing that?
I've been thinking of doing the same with the Romand font….
Peter,
Do you just want to know how I revised the font? I uploaded SIMPLEX.shx
here in 1987 and due to the 6 character limitation imposed by CIS it was
shortened to SIMPLE<g>.
I can upload the .shp file if you like.
Gale
(Do I hear an echo? (CI$ strikes again)
Gale-
I'm really interested in the *method* you used to figure out how to
modify the spacing; I haven't toyed with font files, yet, and could do with
some advice.
Yeah, those 6 character file names can be anoying for you Unix types,
eh? Just wait, though, till OS/2 2.0 is out in force; then you'll see a lot
more of us complaining about the same, and then being spoiled, complaining
about not being able to store the EA data with the CI$ files <g>. As a side
note, there is something just a little more frustrating than this, even.
When we upgraded our old CADD system from the PDP-11 to a MicroVax, the
idiotic software vendor still stuck us with 6 character file names for all
of it's files….. ARRRGGGHHHH! <g>
Gale – right!! I just referred someone else to your prog this morning!
Dave
Quattro Pro can undoubtably produce space-delimited ASCII files. Use
ASCTEXT.LSP documented in the back of the AutoLisp Programmer's Reference
to read them into an AutoCAD drawing. It's easier than it looks.
Tom,
Save your Quattro Pro file as a .WK1 (Lotus) file and then use my program
"Tab123". Tab123 imports data directly from a Lotus file to an AutoCAD
table of text entities. You can also have Tab123 draw a grid around the
cells. Formatting (Left, Right, Center, Numeric; eq Dollars, Comma, as well
as column widths) is retained.
The filename is TAB123.EXE in LIB 9.
Jerry