Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Inside Out

Chapter 17. Using CAD Drawings in Visio

How Visio Works with CAD Programs

Importing CAD Drawings in Visio

Modifying Inserted CAD Drawings

Converting CAD Drawings into Visio Format

Converting Visio Diagrams into CAD Format

You’re designing a sound system or a conference room layout or some ductwork—something that you know Microsoft Office Visio 2003 can do—and you want to include an existing CAD drawing from the architect or engineer. Why start from scratch? Visio does a good job of importing CAD drawings as background images that you can annotate with Visio shapes. You can even convert CAD objects to Visio shapes when you want to edit more extensively. In addition, you can convert Visio drawings to CAD-readable format. Visio includes filters and converters ...