Expert: Bill DeShawn - 9/27/2004

Question
I am having severe difficulties, and I appreciate you taking the time to read and "hopefully" solve this. I work for a residential designer and in the past, prior to my arrival, he was using any source possible to get his plans drawn. Since then he has went to a strictly autocad based operation. Now we are struggling to get our drawings transfered into an AutoCad format.

We are fighting the toughest battle with Architrion files. Architrion is no longer in business and we have months of drafting time that can be salvaged should we be able to format these file to be used in AutoCad. I can't even find out the file type (extension) that Architrion formats its work as..... Nor do I have access to any version of Architrion in order to save these files in another format.

Thanks in advance for ANY assistance you can offer.

Tom Means

Answer
Tom:
These are the people that have further developed Architron:
http://www.architosh.com/features/2000/2000-08intev-boa.html
They now call the program BOA.  Although they are called "Best of Architectural", they are often referred to as "Best of Architrion".  From what I have read it will translate to DXF or DWG.  BOA Research can be contacted with this phone number:
617-499-0825
Address:
6 Chauncy St
Cambridge, MA 02138-2609

I hope I have been of constructive assistance.
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