7.7. Exporting a drawing<br>

## 7.7. Exporting a drawing

The program enables exporting a drawing in the form of a plan, developed view, profile, system or network diagram into a file on disk. Drawings can be exported in the DWG, DXF, DXB, Windows Metafile (WMF files), Enhanced Metafile (EMF files), JPEG and other formats. DWG / DXF files can be opened in many professional graphics software packages, such as AutoCAD®. WMF and EMF files can be read by most Windows applications. The effect, however, can be unsatisfactory. Some applications may require appropriate graphical filter (e.g. for MS Office®, you can specify the graphical filters when installing the package).

¨ To export a drawing select “File / Export drawing ...”. The export window is opened, where you specify the type of file into which the drawing is to be exported.

! Export is not possible without specifying file type.

After selecting file type click the “Next” button. Another window is opened, where you select the worksheets to be exported and specify the type of export.

By default all worksheets are selected for export. If you don’t want to export some worksheets, uncheck the fields next to those worksheet names.

Export with appending is performed only in the case of DWG / DXF / DXB files. This is characterised by the generation of a copy of the previously imported .dwg file and appending it with layers created by and saving it with a new name. The base on which the project was created does not need to be exported, as the entire structure of the .dwg file remains intact – it only includes additional layers with inserted components.

When the .dwg file was imported and it is on the disk, its name is displayed in the “Appended file” field. After marking a worksheet (highlighted in dark blue), additional icons appear and the appended file and the destination file may be changed. You can change the appended file or find the appended file on the disk, if its location has been changed, by clicking the button.

! When the imported file is not on the disk or when it cannot be localised, a symbol is displayed. In this case you can look for the file manually or perform an export without appending.

! If there is more than one imported.dwg file on one worksheet, none of them will be appended and no name will be displayed. You can append only one of these files.

You can change the name of the destination file and its location on the disk with the button. By default the name consists of the project file name + name of the worksheet. The file is saved to the data folder.

To export a DWG / DXF / DXB file without appending click on the button. Both the layers generated by the program and the base layers are exported. However the objects of the base will only be graphical objects, such as a line or a polygon, and will have no properties.

Exporting of files other than DWG/DXF is done without appending any files. The name of the destination file can be changed.

To move to the last export window click on the “Next” button. Depending on the file type selected, appropriate options are displayed: file version, unit, exported lines and their thickness or DPI resolution.

To complete the export and save the files to the disk click on the button. An “Exporting project as drawing. Please wait ...” message is displayed. Export is completed when the message disappears.