[rc30fan]

Has anyone out there been able to convert an ascii text file to a .dwg ?

A friend wants me to help with some drawings but he cant send the files directly so they get converted into a .txt attachment.

Any suggestions?

TIA,

Shaun.

[ViperTX]

I seriously doubt that it will happen in this life time. What you need are binary files and then you'll need a post processor that can take the binary files and convert them to something meaningful........

[TCARPENTER]

Shaun,

This sounds like a security issue. There have been so many viruses going around as of late that about the only file format that gets through are txt files. Have your friend resend you the files but have him rename the files say Test.DWG to Test.txt before he sends them to you. Most email/firewall systems don't actually read the file, they just check the extension - this should allow the files to pass through. Once you get them, just detach them and then rename back to Test.DWG.

HTH
Todd

[rc30fan]

Thanks Todd,

thats actually what I did. i was surprised when it didnt work. i was able to have him resend the documents individually and retain the extension which allowed me to open them in autocad.

while i was researching the problem i found some interesting ascii tricks:

http://abstract.cs.washington.edu/~r...matrix.html.gz

[Jkier]

We use ASCII files to import and export points from the Survey package. Not sure what type of info the ASCII he's creating would be.