Cropped CAD Display Objects in Your Visio 2003 Drawing Are No Longer Cropped After You Save Your Drawing as a .dxf File

When you convert a Microsoft Office Visio 2003 drawing that contains a cropped CAD display object to AutoCAD Interchange format by saving the drawing as a .dxf file, the CAD display object is not cropped when you open the resulting .dxf file in Visio 2003.

This issue occurs because Visio 2003 does not write out cropped views of CAD display objects.

To work around this issue, convert the cropped CAD display objects that are contained in your Visio 2003 drawing to Visio format, and then save the drawing as a .dxf file. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Start Visio 2003, and then open your Visio 2003 drawing.
2. Convert the cropped CAD display objects in your drawing to Visio format. To do so, follow these steps:
   1. Right-click each cropped CAD display object in your drawing, point to CAD Drawing Object, and then click Convert.
   2. In the Convert CAD Object dialog box, specify the layers that you want to convert, and then click OK.
3. Save the drawing as a .dxf file. To do so, follow these steps:
   1. On the File menu, click Save As.
   2. Specify a file name and a location where you want to save the file.
   3. In the Save as type box, click AutoCAD Interchange (*.dxf), and then click Save.

For more information about how to work with CAD drawings in Visio 2003, see Visio Help. To do so, on the Help menu, click Microsoft Office Visio Help, type CAD drawings in the Search for box, and then press ENTER to view the topics that are returned.

For more information about Visio 2003, visit the following Microsoft Web site: