Bricscad to Excel

Jeff Claunch
Jeff Claunch
in Other
 Hello,

I am trying to find a way to get a good quality graphical representation of a Bricscad drawing into an Excel file for one of our non-engineer types to view drawings.  I have tried to convince them to use PDF files instead, but no luck. Right now I am copying the geometry to the clipboard and then pasting into an excel file, but the quality is not so good when I zoom in..  How do I get better drawing quality into an Excel spreadsheet format?

Thanks!
Jeff

PS - I'm actually using OpenOffice and Not MS Office.

Comments

  • David Waight
    David Waight
    Jeff,

    Have you tried using dxf, via Insert, Picture, From File.

    It seems to work in Libreoffice Calc and can be moved and scaled.

    Cheers,

    David
  • Wiebe van der Worp
    Wiebe van der Worp
    So actually the title should be BricsCAD to Calc, right? LibreOffice (or OpenOffice?) does support SVG pretty well. What you can do is create a PDF, feed it to Inkscape, save it as SVG and insert it in LibreOffice (I think OpenOffice is a sinking ship with Oracle at the wheel). Should work with Linux too.

    However, I would let your colleague read this post too because you're right advising them to use PDF - unless it is for a part catalog or manual.
  • Hans De Backer
    Hans De Backer
    As an alternative, you may want to try increasing the PictureExportScale setting, and then copy/paste the desired part of the drawing into the sheet as an Enhanced Metafile.
  • Jeff Claunch
    Jeff Claunch
     Thank you all for the quick replies!

    PictureExportScale seems to be the quickest and easiest and works pretty well.  That's my pick for now.

    Thanks again!
    Jeff

  • Jason Bourhill
    Jason Bourhill
     Jeff,

    Further discussion on this can be found here:

    Regards,

    Jason Bourhill

    CAD Concepts

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