topic DWG Export - Viewport Borders in Revit Structure Forum

DWG Export - Viewport Borders

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 14:40:09 GMT

Hi All,

I'm exporting my sheets from Revit 2018.3 to DWG files and in the "Layout 1" I see the viewport's borders. Is there a way to turn off these borders during export?

Any tip of advice will be very well received.

Regards

Re: DWG Export - Viewport Borders

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 05:49:51 GMT

Just wondering why you want to delete the viewports border? This will exported by default as this allows you to control the view scale. Would you consider just turning off the layer?

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Re: DWG Export - Viewport Borders

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 14:22:52 GMT

Hi @Anonymous I don't want to delete the lines. I just want them to be off when DWG export is done, or at least as I have the option to set which layer are "not-printable", have the option to turn off layers during export.

Regards

Re: DWG Export - Viewport Borders

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Apr 2019 23:00:39 GMT

Hi @Anonymous, my apologies as I have misunderstood your question. I've seen an old article similar to your case but has no definite resolution and not sure if there is any development in that functionality. At least not that I have seen so far.

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Re: DWG Export - Viewport Borders

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 12:50:34 GMT

@Anonymous thanks for your reply!

I'll follow your directions on following that thread and ask if there is a solution available.

Regards!

Re: DWG Export - Viewport Borders

Judy_S — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 20:15:09 GMT

Hi, jvillaroel,

Welcome to the Autodesk Forums! I'm Judy from Revit Technical Support. I see you're exporting to DWG and want to be able to freeze the viewport layers as you export so they are not visible when you open the exported files. There is no option for doing so during the export process, so my suggestion would be to freeze the viewport layer in your DWG files once they are created. These viewport outlines are generally exported to a non-plot layer, as you probably know, so they won't print. If this is a feature you'd like to see incorporated into the software, you could post it on the Revit Ideas page, where other users can vote for the idea if they also feel it would be helpful.

Please let me know if this answers your question. If so, please click the Accept Solution button so others can find the answer more readily.

Thanks, and let me know if you have any other questions about this.

Best,

Judy_S

Re: DWG Export - Viewport Borders

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 20:54:49 GMT

Thanks for your response, @Judy_S.

I agree with you about how to freeze the layers in AutoCAD, but this feature I'm looking would be very useful when exporting a batch of sheets, avoiding to access them one by one.

I followed your recommendation and posted this on the Revit Ideas.

Best regards,

Re: DWG Export - Viewport Borders

p.m — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:19:38 GMT

Yet more more TOTALLY OBSURD and unworkable feature.

We are exporting about 150 sheets from Revit to Autocad

and need them to look right when exported.

Looks find in Revit Preview, then the 'viewport'

window doesn't even match the sheet in Autocad.

Is Autodesk really saying we should open up and 'fix' 150 sheets because

there is NO WAY TO EXPORT THEM in a useful format?

Re: DWG Export - Viewport Borders

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 13:36:12 GMT

Dear @Judy_S ,

Do you know if there is a solution to this in the newest version of revit?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,

Re: DWG Export - Viewport Borders

mike.austinNVUVT — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 16:16:58 GMT

In the 'Modify DWG/DXF Export Setup' Dialog, in the very bottom of the layers list there is 'Others/Viewports with a layer name: 'Z-Zz_10_20_95_P_VIEWPORT'. I re-named this to 'Z-Zz_10_20_95_P_VIEWPORT NPLT' (adding the NPLT text) and then my exported CAD file includes the viewport outlines as non-plot layers.

The lines are still visible in CAD, but this is typically the same as defpoints. This thead helped me solve this issue. Thank you

Re: DWG Export - Viewport Borders

k.tigrine — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 08:36:58 GMT

Hi everyone,

I am experiencing the same issue, it seems there is no solution to that simple problem. It would be nice if autodesk could do something, because of that our presentations don't have a professionnal look. Can't even resize that viewport! . I agree with Jvillaroel, there is no way we should modify a DWG after export, just because autodesk is not able th have revit and autocad work together properly. I hope we'll have a solution shortly

Re: DWG Export - Viewport Borders

jorge.esesarte — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 11:54:37 GMT

This would be the way (should be marked as the solution).

We had to create a new export profile for DWG, look for the category "Viewport" wich was already renamed (RVT21) and check in the general tab of the exportation if the NPLT was correct.
You would see it in the CAD sheets but not in the prints when plotted.

I don't understand why the clients like to have the project in CAD... To me is a nonsense in most of the cases.