The drawing come into turbo cad not at the same scale as it was exported. In tfp the scale is 1 : 48 and in tcw it was 1 : 3967, not sure why.
Once the drawing is in tcw all of the walls, window, everything in tfp is now only line segments, not a wall or etc.
And if you want to try to bring in an elevation view, so you can detail it better in tcw, tfp will not let you do so. The drawing exported is only the plan view.
Since I do little TCAD but use several other 3D progs,
- Looking at the numbers I think its a conversion between inches and meters as 48 means 4' or 48". 39.67 seems like 1 meter expressed as inches. Maybe if you check that each is in the same units? But perhaps its the old issue that the underlying dimensions in FP are metric and TCAD its ft-in. Perhaps if you change the scale in TFP ( from 1:48 to something different) before you export it may be different??? But consider that TFP scale is for printing to paper and I don't think it really changes the underlying math of the model at all and you'd see no difference...but testing will prove that. Usually conversions of scale are done by the importing program; if you have any choices upon import. Imports into FP11 always required me to make a "custom" scale of 305 to get close and the adjust final size after import into the drawing.
- Maybe you can use a different format such as 3ds or use a third party program to convert from one format to another sometimes things are grouped and you must select the group not the item in the group.....OK if you use the assembly indented parts list tools.
- If I were trying to do an elevation view...why not just orient the 3D view in TCAD to an ortho view of elev.? I don't think TFP exports an elev. view except as a 2D graphic because its a 2D view (not a 3D model view). See page 310 in the .pdf TFP manual. DXF can be a 2D or 3D export depending on your export choice....page 311.
