STAR*NET V6 - Circe
STAR*NET V6 - Circe
STAR*NET V6 - Circe
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The settings selected (scale, marker and lettering sizes, slant, items included, etc.) are<br />
saved on a project basis. Therefore, when you exit a project, and then return later to it,<br />
the same DXF option settings will appear.<br />
When you are using the DXF Exporter on what you consider a “typical” project, you can<br />
press the “Save Settings as Typical” button to save the current DXF settings as typical<br />
defaults. Then whenever you start a new project, these saved typical settings will be used<br />
as starting settings. All settings are saved except the ellipse exaggeration that is uniquely<br />
handled as required for each project.<br />
Loading the DXF File into AutoCAD<br />
The DXF file exported from <strong>STAR*NET</strong> can be directly imported into a new drawing by<br />
AutoCAD and most other graphics programs supporting the DXF file format.<br />
If you want to import <strong>STAR*NET</strong> DXF files into an AutoCAD drawing environment<br />
that already has an established drawing prototype with defined entities (i.e. some third<br />
party COGO packages), here are two ways to accomplish this:<br />
1. The most straight-forward way is to import the DXF into AutoCAD as a new<br />
drawing that has no prototype drawing already set, and then immediately save it to a<br />
standard DWG drawing file. This file can then be read into another drawings that<br />
already has defined entities.<br />
2. Another way is to first insert the STAR6.DWG prototype file, supplied with your<br />
installation, into your existing drawing to define the entities in the DXF file, and<br />
then you can read the DXF directly into your existing drawing. The STAR6.DWG<br />
file is located in the same directory that <strong>STAR*NET</strong> was installed. This file contains<br />
all the entity definitions and layer names used by the DXF export, but no actual<br />
drawing items.<br />
Many versions of AutoCAD exist as well as numerous other graphics programs capable<br />
of importing DXF files, and it is impossible to provide detailed instructions for each in<br />
this manual. Refer to instructions supplied with your particular graphics program for the<br />
its particular methods of importing DXF files.<br />
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