EXPORTLAYOUT failed to generate a new drawing.

[Anonymous]

I am attempting to export to layout, when I do I get the error message " EXPORTLAYOUT failed to generate a new drawing." The new drawing it generates is a invalid drawing file. I have several viewports and have changed the exportpaper space variable to 1 to export all views. Any suggestions of what I may try?

[pendean]

Is the problem unique to this one file? Test and find out.
ACA version in your next post please.

[Anonymous]

I am working on Autocad Architecture 2015 and it seems to be on all drawings.

[pendean]

Red this about what the command does NOT export and other limitations, does your file contain these objects?
http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/AutoCA...

[Anonymous]

I have read this and it didn't seem to help. I have attached a drawing I am working with.

[pendean]

Copy/Pasting your modelspace content to a new file, and doing the same with your layout, seems to have cured the problem: I think you've probably wasted enough time on the original file 🙂

[Anonymous]

For all 46 drawings?

[pendean]

What is the source of these files? Perhaps there is a clue.

I couldn't find the reason in the file you uploaded, so the answer would be yes, unless you want to wait some more for others to jump in. Might be worth the wait, but who knows.

[zalant]

I've got one of my Development guys looking further into this, but for now, I can tell you that it's the mleaders holding up the show.

Attached are two DWGs, both of which appear identical, in as many ways as I could find. Yet, one works and one doesn't. The one which doesn't is what's left of your sample DWG after I deleted and purged everything out, leaving only one mleader, whose text I modified.

[zalant · Accepted solution]

The consensus here is that the mleaders in the original drawing simply have some corruption in them. It is not known where it originated, nor how to correct it. The only solution I found was to delete those objects, and then the EXPORTLAYOUT worked fine.

[dmgraves]

AutoCAD 2016

Command: _.EXPORTLAYOUT ** EXPORTLAYOUT failed to generate a new drawing. **

Not the mleaders.  Deleted all and still failed.

[zalant]

The DWG file posted previously in this thread had some corruption within the mleader objects. Your drawing likely has the same underlying problem, but not necessarily with the same type of objects.

[pendean]

Fix your file with RECOVER command or replace the bad layout with a new layout and try again.

[dmgraves]

Thanks, but I still get ** EXPORTLAYOUT failed to generate a new drawing. **..  Thinking this is just an AutoCAD bug that doesn't want to go away.

[dbroad]

Post a drawing that exhibits the problem.  Otherwise we're forced to play guessing games.

[pendean]

You can just quit and move on of course, never getting the task done, but there is no such bug: show us your DWG file, let's end the discussion with a fix or find the real issue like an errant object or something.

[dmgraves]

Would like to post the dwg but due to customer confidentiality agreements that will not be possible.  We'll just use the old fashioned cut and paste method for now, however I do appreciate the efforts of all.  Thanks.

[dmgraves]

Would like to post the drawing, but due to customer confidentiality agreements that will not be possible.  We'll just use the old fashioned cut and paste method for now, however I do appreciate the efforts of all.  Thanks.

[JaHeaton · Accepted solution]

I know this is an old post, but our IT guy found a solution to help us out that may help others. Apparently bringing an xref into a file also brings in that xref's annotation scales. If you get too many annotation scales, you can't export the layout.

His solution is to use the Scale List Cleanup Utility from Autodesk on the sheets we want to export that are having issues.

[Anonymous]

Great !! Thanks , that was a great solution !!!