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Arrow heads on Leaders

Old Dawg

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Need help trying to correct an issue with our .dxf exports from Wildfire
4.0 We recently migrated from W/F2 to W/F4. The issue is with arrow
heads and dots on leaders. Our drawings are at a 5:1 scale (very small
parts). When we export to .dxf anything on the end of the leader is
enlarged by a factor of 5. Everything else (dimension lines etc.) looks
correct. We didn
 
There is a "stroke all entities" or something like that which is the best I've found for making everything look exactly the same between Pro/E and dxf/dwg exports. The down side is everything is just a bunch of lines. Dimensions, text, hatching, everything just lines. Pretty much sucks if you have to edit anything in the downstream application. We use it to send stuff to Mexico, I don't care how bad it is on their end as long as it looks mavelous.
 
We ended up changing the Export file version from version 2000 to 12 or 13. Any of the newer versions caused the arrowheads and dots to enlarge by the scale factor on the drawing.
 

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