Using built-in commands to extract WMF images from CAD programs for use in DTP or Word documents produces very poor results. With BetterWMF you can use your CAD drawings in Office documents with results that will make you look good, and please your clients.

Take full control over how your CAD drawings will look in Word. Excel and PowerPoint...

• Crop image size to the extents of selected entities
• Remove the AutoCAD background color
• Assign widths to all lines
• Merge paperspace and all viewports into one picture
• Preset the size of the pasted picture
• Plus many more configurable options

As you probably already know, cut and paste between AutoCAD and Office applications leaves something to be desired... like a decent looking drawing that you can show to your clients!

The latest release is BetterWMF 2010 and the major new features include:

• 32-bit drivers for AutoCAD 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010
• 64-bit drivers for AutoCAD 2008, 2009 and 2010
• Much improved Vista compatibility (but as always XP compatible)
• Full AutoCAD 2010 compatibility
• Much improved support for OLE-objects like embedded Excel sheets
• Much improved support for embedded bitmaps
• Completely restyled helpfile
• Several minor bugs solved

BetterWMF 4 is still available for people using AutoCAD releases between R14 and 2007.

The Problem...
Does this look familiar?

An example of typical WMF output from AutoCAD using the Windows clipboard.

There are well known deficiencies in all versions of AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT and AutoSketch in using the Windows clipboard to transpose graphics from these programs into Office applications such as Word,  Excel and PowerPoint -- the kind of tools you would use to prepare presentations for clients and associates.

Frankly, the Windows cut and paste function will not show your CAD drawings in the most professional light.

The Solution
With Better WMF you can insert crisp, professional-looking drawings from  AutoCAD into your Office documents.

Insert the drawing with the colors you used to create the drawing...

...or convert all vectors to black with uniform lineweight or assign lineweight based on color, just as you would when printing your CAD drawing.

Control
The Better WMF Options dialog box gives you full control over all functions. 

Better WMF runs inside AutoCAD or can be loaded directly from Windows. As a standalone application it can be used instead of the Windows clipboard with other applications to capture graphics with the same controls over WMF image quality.

Images processed with Better WMF can be inserted directly into Office documents or saved to disk as quality WMF files for any other use at any time.

New in Version 4.x

• AutoCAD R14, 2000-2006 and Windows XP fully supported
• AutoCAD 2007 supported in standalone mode.
• Improved paperspace/viewports merging
• Several other minor changes and bug fixes

New in Version 3.x

• User-friendly window to map colors to linewidths
• Improved color recognition
• Remap AutoCAD's colors to any Windows TrueType colors
• Support for Voloview, FelixCAD and IntelliCAD
• Support for any other program that can put a WMF picture on the clipboard
• Store all settings in a BW3-file for easy retrieval
• Several other minor changes and bug fixes