convert from CAD to eQuest

Step 1 : Open a New File Upon opening eQuest (Depending on the Version)

Select “Create a New Project via the Wizard”

Step 2 : Select a Design Platform

Once a type of file is selected to either

“Open” or “Start”

It will prompt you to either selected a

“Schematic Design Wizard” (used for not enough information)

or a “Development Wizard”

(used for enough information)

Step 3: Selecting the Footprint Shape

After Selecting a Design Platform (In this example: Schematic Design Wizard)

Another box will be prompted to advise you

to select a “Footprint Shape”

Select “Custom”

Step 4 : Customizing Footprint

Now, if you do not want any of the default “Footprint Shape” options you have the authority to change the “Footprint Shape” to “Custom”

Another box will be prompted to advise you to select either a “Previously Defined

Footprint” or a “Blank Slate”

To import a CAD file select “Blank Slate” and “import CAD file from

drop-down menu.

Step 5 : Select Drawing

Next use the File Explorer to find the CAD Drawing you would like

to import and select.

If no drawings show up search for DXF files

But then…...

Step 6 : Error

An Error may occur stating that it is an

“Invalid File Version”

To correct this error...

Step 7 : Correcting the Invalid Version Error

Open the CAD drawing in Autocad

Click “Save Drawing As”

Scroll Down under “Files of Type” and Select

“AutoCad 2013/LT2013 Drawing (“dwg)”

Now try to open this .dwg file in Equest

Step 8 : CAD Drawing Properities

A box will then be prompted to create some “CAD Drawing

Properties” for the selected file

Under “CAD Drawing Settings” it will ask the “Type of Units” and customize the dimensions. Use

the default:

“1 CAD Unit - 1 inches” (in this example)

Once customized Select “Apply”

Step 9 : Complete Importation

After customizing the CAD Drawing File

Settings and selecting “Apply”

The AutoCAD Drawing will successfully be imported to

the chosen platform.