Applying a fill to an imported .dwg cad file?

[YankyBJeans]

I need some help applying a fill to the many pieces of a cad .dwg file that I imported into corel draw 10. It is a circuit board schematic im using in a manual at work but corel wont let me fill it since the parts of the board are just individual lines (thats how cad draws). For example, there are many box shapes that represent resistors, diodes, capacitors, etc and I want to fill those with different shades of gray for greater contrast. However I cannot get fill to work. I tried to combine the objects then fill but it still didnt work. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Yanky

 

[Pixelchik]

Hi Yanky,
I feel your pain, having had to do the same thing with CAD technical drawings before. You need to do more than combine the lines. Using the Shape tool, you need to connect each line to another. It's a painstaking process but it's the only way to get a fill. What you do is select the lines you need to be connected and Combine them, then click on the shape tool and draw a box around the points to be connected (usually two) and right click, then select Join. Keep doing that for each set of points. Then you should be able to fill with a colour. Hope this helps.

 

[FreshJava]

Just a thought here,not sure if this will even work, but have you tried converting to bitmap, then use trace bitmap program. Once traced, import back into corel draw.

 

[YankyBJeans]

Thanks Pixelchick. your solution worked perfectly and got me out of a real jam. many thanks to you

yanky