For the sake of typography, have you ever tried inserting a graphic from AutoCAD into Word 2000/2003? If you've ever encountered the following problems, these tips may be very useful to you.
First, simple problems are handled simply
1. Encounter a black background after inserting Word
As shown in Figure 1, the AutoCAD graphic after inserting Word is fine, but the large black background doesn't look so comfortable. It turns out that this is because there is a problem with the default display property setting in AutoCAD, and the use of a black background is set to allow users to reduce eye fatigue when drawing, after all, few people can eat for several hours in a row to stare at the white screen!
Knowing the root cause of the problem, the solution is much simpler, click the "Preferences→Display dialog box under the "Tools" menu of AutoCAD R14 (Figure 2), then click the "Colors" button, and then select white in the "AutoCAD Window Colors".
Reinsert it again and see the annoying black background in the (Figure 3) window again, right?
2. Insert too many blank parts of graphics in Word
Although the problem of black background is solved, there is still too much blank space around the graphic in Figure 3, if you trim in Word, the technical difficulty is relatively large, the reason for the problem is because Word will display all the drawing area in AutoCAD, it seems that OLE (Object Link Embed, object linking and embedding) technology is also insufficient!
How to solve it? For shaped graphics with regular shapes, we can handle them by scaling them, paying attention to adjusting them to completely fill the entire drawing area; but for flat shapes with irregular shapes, we can only adjust the width of the command line below to process, and the slender shapes can be rotated 90° first, and then processed after transforming it into a flat shape.
3. The line width of the graph is too thin
If we insert the AutoCAD graphic without setting the line width directly into Word, then the lines in the graphics after printing will be very thin, and the surrounding fonts look very incongruous, and many friends will take the method of using polylines to deal with when drawing, which is very troublesome to use. Here's a better way!
Second, BetterWMF software can easily help you
Although the tips introduced above can help friends solve some problems that occur after the AutoCAD graphic is inserted into Word, if you need to modify the black background to a white background every time before copying, it is too troublesome, and trimming the blank edges of the graphic is not a simple job, and the setting of the line width is even more of a big problem. However, the small software BetterWMF that I will introduce below can solve all the above problems.
1. Function introduction
First of all, please go to the http://www.furix.com to download this software with only 348KB, the latest version is 4.0, no need to install after downloading, you can use it after decompression, but if it is an unregistered version, it can only be used for 30 days.
BetterWMF's function is mainly to copy the graphics in AutoCAD to Word, when copying will automatically remove the black background, automatically trim the blank edges of the drawing, automatically modify the color, automatically change to WMF format, more gratifyingly, users can also set different copy line widths for different lines according to their own needs, so that there will be no problem that the lines of the graphics in Word are too thin.
2. Get started quickly
As shown in Figure 4, the interface of BetterWMF is not complicated, as long as you figure out the meaning of each option here, you can get a satisfactory graphic.
(1) Gerneral options: General options
Remove AutoCAD background color: Removes the background color from AutoCAD
Crop WMF picture to extent of entities: Automatically trims white space in a graphic
(2) Lines and text: Lines and text
Make all black: This is a checkbox that, when checked, adjusts the color of all lines and text in the inserted graphics to black, which is especially useful when writing technical articles.
Width unmodifiedthin lines: The lineweight is unchanged, which is also the default setting
Fixed linewidth: Uses a fixed line width
Advanced: This is a new option after the 3.1 version, after selecting, you can enter the Figure 5 dialog box for settings, the interface here is relatively simple, the author will not say more.
(3) Filled colors: Fill color
Make all black: All black
Color unmodified: The color does not change
Advanced: Advanced options, after selection, a dialog similar to Figure 5 will appear, where you can modify the color of the line and the fill color.
(4) Suggested picture size: Suggested graphic size
Leave unmodified: Does not modify, which is also the default setting
Percentage of AutoCAD's suggestion: Scales proportionally to the size of the current AutoCAD drawing
Scaled to fit fixed widthinch: Scales the graphic to the specified width
Scaled to fit fixed heightinch: Scales the graphic to a specified height
After all the settings are done, click the "OK" or "Apply" button, and then you can insert the AutoCAD graphic into Word according to the usual method, at this time we can see that the graphic in Word is already very perfect (Figure 6), the effect is good, right?
Note: The graphic format inserted through BetterWMF is WMF image, not the original AutoCAD drawing, so we can no longer directly double-click the drawing to modify, you can modify it in AutoCAD before inserting.