topic Re: Automate Export to DWG in Revit Structure Forum

Automate Export to DWG

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 22:35:07 GMT

Hi,

For coordination with other autocad products on projects I currently export to dwg a set of 3d views to a folder with a prefix for each of the files created (each view is a different structure in the revit model)

Is there any way to automate this process?

Cheers,

Richard

Re: Automate Export to DWG

L.Maas — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 08:01:25 GMT

This would mean writing an add-in, look for an app or using Dynamo.

Re: Automate Export to DWG

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 21:07:57 GMT

Cheers, I figured as much but I would have thought that I'm not the first person to try and achieve this, was hopping there was a method already available. Searching only seems to show methods to automate schedule exports.

I was hoping it would be as simple as using task scheduler to run a script similar to how the navisworks batch exporting works.

Re: Automate Export to DWG

awes — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 09:42:44 GMT

How would you like to automate the process

- make a set of views

- export -> dwg

- select set

- select export setup

- next

- select naming: Automatic - Long (Specify prefix) and ok

Re: Automate Export to DWG

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 00:00:24 GMT

Thats pretty much spot on awes, I made the set in the print section and called it 'Plant Coordination Set', the prefix would be 'Revit', the only other thing is trying to path the outputs to a specific folder , at the moment it defaults to my 'Documents' folder on my C: drive

Re: Automate Export to DWG

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 00:53:43 GMT

Hi Anders,

Any idea how to automate the process mentioned.

Cheers

Richard

Re: Automate Export to DWG

ToanDN — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 00:57:30 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Thats pretty much spot on awes, I made the set in the print section and called it 'Plant Coordination Set', the prefix would be 'Revit', the only other thing is trying to path the outputs to a specific folder , at the moment it defaults to my 'Documents' folder on my C: drive

Not sure if there is a question but you can select a folder before exporting to DWG.

Re: Automate Export to DWG

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 01:12:59 GMT

Exporting things manually wasnt the question, the question is ... how to automate the process listed

Re: Automate Export to DWG

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 23:52:46 GMT

bump

Anyone ???

Re: Automate Export to DWG

Anonymous — Wed, 29 May 2019 12:02:27 GMT

Hi Rich0,

Have you ever found an answer on how to automate this process? I have the same issue here, lots of different projects needing to be exported to dwg. I am currently working on scripts to optimize a lot of different tasks but didn't get to this one yet, have you found anything useful?

Selim

Re: Automate Export to DWG

Anonymous — Wed, 29 May 2019 23:07:10 GMT

No sorry, I got nowhere with this one, I just do it manually