BetterWMF
General
It is important to realize BetterWMF internally uses AutoCAD's original WMFOUT to create a first version of the picture. That picture is modified (made better) and this results in the final picture. Whenever you encounter a problem please try AutoCAD's original WMFOUT. If the problem is there as well ask yourself: is BetterWMF supposed to improve this?
BetterWMF does not improve any pictures
BetterWMF can be used in one of two ways.
- (preferred) By loading an ARX-module in AutoCAD you get new AutoCAD commands BWMFOUT and BCOPYCLIP.
You should use one of these two commands in AutoCAD to get an improved picture.
- (for AutoCAD LT) By starting BClipbrd.exe the regular copy-and-paste will be improved.
When using BetterWMF this way a small tooltip window will popup telling you that BetterWMF has modified the picture.
3D hidden images give poor results
Internally BetterWMF uses AutoCAD's original WMFOUT to create a first version of the picture.
It appears that AutoCAD does not really support a WMFOUT or COPYCLIP of a 3D model when SHADEMODE is set to anything else than '2d Wireframe'. So to create a picture with lines hidden:
MS
SHADEMODE
2d Wireframe
HIDE
BWMFOUT
The result might not be as good as you'd hope but AutoCAD doesn't do any better and Better WMF cannot improve that.
Uninstalling BetterWMF
Installing BetterWMF actually just unzip's all files to
"c:\Program Files\Furix\Better WMF"
so uninstalling can be simply done by deleting that directory with all content.
