Only objects on the foreground page appear when you save a multi-page Visio drawing as a .dwg file or as a .dxf file and then view the drawing in AutoCAD (873426)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2003
  • Microsoft Office Visio Standard 2003
  • Microsoft Visio 2002 Professional
  • Microsoft Visio 2002 Standard
  • Microsoft Visio 2000 Enterprise Edition
  • Microsoft Visio 2000 Standard Edition

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Office Visio 2003, Microsoft Visio 2002, and Microsoft Visio 2000, when you create a drawing that contains a background page that is assigned to a foreground page, and then save the drawing as a .dwg file or as a .dxf file, only objects on the foreground page of the Microsoft Visio drawing appear when you open the .dwg file or the .dxf file in AutoCAD.

CAUSE

This problem occurs because Visio saves only the page of the Visio drawing that is currently in focus to CAD format. You cannot save all the pages of a multi-page drawing to a CAD format at the same time.

If a drawing contains a background page that is assigned a foreground page, and the foreground page is currently selected when you save the drawing as a .dwg file or as a .dxf file, only objects on that foreground page are converted to CAD format. Visio does not support the conversion of the objects on a background page that is assigned to a foreground page when you save the foreground page to CAD format.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, save each page of your multi-page Visio drawing separately to a CAD file format. To do this, follow these steps:
  1. Start Visio, and then open the drawing that you want to save to CAD format.
  2. Click the page of your Visio drawing that you want to convert, and then click Save As on the File menu.
  3. In the Save As dialog box, specify a location where you want to save the file, type a file name in the File name box, click either AutoCAD Drawing (*.dwg) or AutoCAD Interchange (*.dxf) in the Save as type box, and then click Save.
  4. Repeat step 2 and step 3 for each page of your Visio drawing.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information about how to save a Visio drawing as a .dwg file or as a .dxf file, see Visio Help. To do this, click Microsoft Office Visio Help on the Help menu, type save a drawing as a .dwg or .dxf file in the Search for box, and then press ENTER to view the topics that are returned.

For more information about Visio, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/visio

Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:9/13/2004
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