You can use "expand the appearance", this works also with brushes. Now the control points or nodes are available. Then you can copy and paste into DRAW with the Alex Vakulenko's script which you can get here:

http://www.oberonplace.com/vba/drawm...oard/index.htm

If it is from symbols, you can't add it to DRAW's symbols if it has transparency in it. But you can remove the transparency.

Or after expanding the appearance, you can create a page of whatever swatches you need for repeating patterns and save as a .pdf and import the .pdf into DRAW.