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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.

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.