Hi,
My CAD manager asked me if I know how to solve long know problem of deleting elements of Civil 3D out of export to Autocad files.
He is saying that every time he is doing purge and close the drawing things are comming back. As an example materials .
I'm agree that it's unnesesary weight for files and a server after all.
So is there a more proper way of doing export?
Thank you,
Vasily
Doesn't seem to do that for me. When I epxorted the file, opened, purged, there was nothing to be purged. I did this with the Align-7C.dwg from the tutorials. Can you try it with that file and see if you get the same results?
If you are loading XREFs then yes - materials (and plot styles, and a few other things) will propagate from the XREF into the host drawing. There's nothing you can do about it, short of removing the offending data from the XREF itself (which might not be desirable).
How are you exporting the file? If you're using e-transmit, you can choose in the setup which objects are exported.
We had noticed a lot of 'artifacts' that hang around even after an export. Our solution has been to freeze the layers we don't want and wblock the visible elements out to a fresh new file. Seems the only way we can get rid of them.