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Types of DWG and DXF data imported
■ Colors
■ Materials
■ Lines, arcs, and splines
■ Extruded curves
■ Extrusions
■ Layers
■ Meshes
■ Surfaces
■ Text
■ 3D solids
IMPORTANT
■ Showcase does not support the AutoCAD material attribute Illumination.
Alias supports the AutoCAD material attribute Illumination; however,
it is called Incandescence.
■ Showcase supports only 3D hierarchical data. It does not support 2D
drawings.
NOTE
■ To locate this data in your Autodesk software, see Locations of Imported
Data
(page 47).
■ For information about options in Alias for data importation, see the
Autodesk Alias Help.
■ With want curves set to ON, DWG and DXF both support curves and
round-trip data export. If they do not come in, set want curves to ON.
Export DWG/DXF files (Autodesk Alias)
1 In your Autodesk software, choose File > Save As
, or File > Export > Active As
.
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