DWG Export recomendation

DWG Export recomendation

Karol_Piroska
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DWG Export recomendation

Karol_Piroska
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Hi, can anyone please recommend some good add-in that can export DWG with custom proper layer names?

Thanks

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barthbradley
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What's wrong with the AIA Standard?  

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zeulrick
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You can manually change the layer names for every element that is exported. Go to modify export setup. See attached image.

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Karol_Piroska
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@zeulrick no you cannot change names for every element the same way and it does not work as it should.
@barthbradley

there are several problems the way this exporter works, one of the biggest issues is that you cannot include a material description. I know that you can add a material behaviour but again Autodesk stubbornly will not give you this choice for any element. Still, this does not solve the issue completely because say my concrete families have precast concrete bahaviour. Collaborating with civils or people that use/have to use Autocad is a nightmare. In one project I used material worksets to be able to export by material, but that just doesn't work for most models. Unfortunately that' the way it goes with Autodesk - workaround after workaround.

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