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BetterWMF for full AutoCAD

With full AutoCAD versions you can experience the full benefits of BetterWMF. You can have BetterWMF improve your pictures automatically or you can control BetterWMF through lisp functions.

Although the versions differ in many ways they all handle WMF-pictures in the same way.

AutoCAD version	BetterWMF ARX file
AutoCAD 2000 AutoCAD 2002	use Bwmf200x.arx.
AutoCAD 2004 AutoCAD 2005 AutoCAD 2006	use Bwmf2004.arx.
AutoCAD 2007 AutoCAD 2008 32-bit AutoCAD 2009 32-bit	use Bwmf2007.arx.
AutoCAD 2008 64-bit AutoCAD 2009 64-bit	use Bwmf2008x64.arx.
AutoCAD 2010 32-bit	use Bwmf2010.arx.
AutoCAD 2010 64-bit	use Bwmf2010x64.arx.

Installation

To use BetterWMF for a full AutoCAD version you must load the appropriate .arx into AutoCAD (click for help on how to load an ARX).
In AutoCAD, you will get new commands and new lisp-functions. This corresponds to installation according to installation method 1: Loading an ARX into AutoCAD.

Using BetterWMF

After you have loaded the ARX into AutoCAD you can use BetterWMF in many ways.

• You can create BetterWMF pictures through the commands BWMFOUT and BCOPYCLIP.
• You can also do this with the lisp functions (bwmfout), (bcopyclip), (bpswmfout) and (bpscopyclip).
• You can access the Picture options dialog by entering the command BWMFOPT in AutoCAD or set the options through the lisp function (bwmfsetoption).

More information is available in the chapter Using BetterWMF.

Known Limitations

• BetterWMF only accesses the graphical information from AutoCAD, not the drawing database information. If you want to change line widths with BetterWMF, you can only assign new line widths depending on colors, not depending on AutoCAD lineweights.

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