My company is finally using C3D Data Shortcuts in our production drawings. I am somewhat pushing this thru with some backing by the supervisors in our group. I noticed a slight quirk when I go to archive the drawings though. In Paper Space, I have my title block and viewports. In Model Space I have my base XREFs and C3D Data Shortcuts of my surfaces and alignments.
Everything works fine until I use the “ExportToAutoCAD” and/or the eTransmit commands to archive the drawings. If I use those commands while in Paper Space, they don’t explode the C3D entities down to basic entities like it’s supposed to. It puts them all in a block starting with “Viewport” Normally I wouldn’t care if it put each entity (i.e. surface and/or alignment) in a separate block. But it compresses them all into one block. Also bringing objects pushed into the background (using draworder) to the front.
I noticed if I go to Model Space and run the commands, it explodes everything as it should to basic entities. But this isn’t an ideal way of doing things. Obviously I would love to just do everything thru Paper Space since all of our drawings are set up in Sheet Set Manager and are Layout views.
I’ve tried tweeking the settings in the AECOBJEXPLODE command that is executed in “ExportToAutoCAD” or “eTransmit”…nothing seems to make a difference.
Any idea why it is merging everything into a block? Is it a system variable I need to set? Is there any other way we can archive these drawings (especially in batch format like eTransmit) that would not do this?
I hope to have a solution to this before I have people complaining that it’s not archiving their drawings properly. Any suggestions or recommendations are greatly appreciated.
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