Clipped Xrefs - AutoCAD .DWG Exporter - Print to DWG - dwfx Export

[Anonymous]

Hello,

Ok I know, what the! But I wish I had a dwg to dwg printer!

My issue is that I have a whole bunch of drawings which have been created in many complex ways including clipping of xrefs. I need to link and display these drawings in my Revit Model. Trouble is Revit treats the clipped blocks and xrefs as un-clipped. I cannot explode the xrefs as this also expands the clipped block.

My method which i have been forced to use is to export each drawing to a dwfx file and then use a dwf to dwg converted to go back to dwg.

This is really time consuming and the end result is not that great.

It sounds really stupid however if I had a export from dwg to dwg printer then it would save me some steps.

I tried saving to dxf without luck.

Exploding and trimming lines around the clip boundary would take too long.

Linked dwfx files into AutoCAD files do not show in Revit.

Does anyone have any other ideas or methods to suggest?

Kind Regards

David

[Anonymous]

I have the same question.  I run into this all the time...

Why has this not been answered??? 

[AJA14]

Hi,

I think you should consider using WBlock in autocad. It works for large site plans.

Hope that helps. Let us know if you have any success.

Regards,

[Anonymous]

Create viewport in paper space, set viewport scale x1 (in active viewport command: zoom->scale->1xp). Strech viewport to display what you need (it doesn't mater if viewport becomes bigger then printable area.)

Finally right_click on layout tab and select "Export layout to model"

[Anonymous]

No, not very helpful. That means I still have to alter the x-clipped area. Hope this will be resolved in next year's version of Revit. Don't like spending time on work around. Thanks for the reply anyway.

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[Anonymous]

Hi  Natasha00123 ,
 
i missed that drock's post is too old. now i hit "reply" to your post:


Create viewport in paper space, set viewport scale x1 (in active viewport command: zoom->scale->1xp). Strech viewport to display what you need (it doesn't mater if viewport becomes bigger then printable area.)
Finally right_click on layout tab and select "Export layout to model"

[Anonymous]

Exporting the Layout tab does not work. The clipped Xrefs, even if bound, are still there and show up in Revit when linked. Have I missed a step?

[Anonymous]

Wblock only gets the object native to the file, not the Xref stuff.

[octavio2]

Has not Revit added the capability of clipping the linked AutoCAD file?

When you insert drawings, in particular large AutoCAD drawing created by others, you also inherit a lot of other drawings, etc., that are not used around the plan or elevation that you want to use, and these unwanted elements show on the Revit drawing.

Has Revit addressed this issue yet?

[CharlesGoin]

Sadly this is apparently still an issue, but its mainly an issue with ADT drawings... and guess what AutoDesk doesnt care nor do they want to spend resources on it. 

[RobDraw]

Issue or a lack of functionality and how do you know that they don't care? How do you know that they aren't working on it right now?

[Dan.pihl]

Neither wblock nor exporting layout to model works, unfortunately.