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BetterWMF solves AutoCAD problems related to copying and
pasting drawings into other software packages like Microsoft Word.
If you have ever tried to insert an AutoCAD picture
into for example a Microsoft Office document you may have noticed several
problems: To start with, you will get unwanted borders. The resulting size of
a picture is the same as the graphics area of the AutoCAD window at the time
of creation, rather than matching the selected objects.
This usually means that pictures copied from AutoCAD to
other Windows applications will have a large blank area to the top or right.
Also when you print the document with the picture you
will notice that all lines will become equally (very) thin.
Finally you will have discovered that it is very
difficult to size your picture to an accurate scale.
For each of these problems individual, clumsy
workarounds are possible, with varying degrees of success. The real solution
is BetterWMF.
BetterWMF
With BetterWMF no workaround is necessary: Just load an
ARX inside AutoCAD or run Bclipbrd.exe outside AutoCAD and any picture you
cut and paste from AutoCAD to another program will be improved on-the-fly.
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The resulting picture will be exactly
the size of your selected entities. Using the options you can modify the
picture in several other ways. For example, you can turn the picture into
black-and-white, assign width to the lines based on their color or set a
fixed size for the picture as it will appear in other programs. Besides
pasting the improved picture immediately into another application, you can
also save it for later use.
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The resulting picture will be exactly the size of your
selected entities. Using the options you can modify the picture in several
other ways. For example, you can turn the picture into black-and-white,
assign width to the lines based on their color or set a fixed size for the
picture as it will appear in other programs. Besides pasting the improved
picture immediately into another application, you can also save it for later
use.
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This can be done by using the
clipboard or from within AutoCAD by using the new function BWMFOUT which
improves on the standard function WMFOUT.
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BetterWMF picture improvements
BetterWMF can improve your pictures in many ways. It
can:
- Crop the size of the picture to the extents of the selected entities
- Remove the (black) background color and make the picture transparent again
- Assign nonzero widths to all lines or individual widths based on color
- Preset the exact size of the picture as it will appear in for example MS-Word.
- Merge paperspace AND all viewports into one picture (not available for AutoCAD LT)
- Size the picture relative to the scale of your drawing
- Reassign the 256 AutoCAD colors to grayscales or any of the Windows
TrueColors
BetterWMF compatibility
BetterWMF is available and has been tested for many Autodesk products.
For AutoCAD 2017 up to 2023
and all AutoCAD LT versions
Note: 64 bit only
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