https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Tip-Exporting-to-a-really-stripped-down-older-dxf-format/m-p/138831#M14961 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><R>Thought i'd share this experience:<BR /> One of our engineers uses a 10 year old engineering package which obviously cannot read any of the recent cad formats. We set our export translators to translate to model space and acad2000 dxf format.<BR /> The engineers could open it but had problems with wall and column lines missing (very serious indeed).<BR /> We tried a whole lot of different options with the translators, without any luck.<BR /> <BR /> <B>What worked was when we copied and pasted the plans into a worksheet and then exported to dxf.</B> By doing this, everything gets converted to 2d elements, including walls and columns. I also do a search and delete of all unnecessary fills.</R></DIV> Tue, 11 May 2010 18:49:29 GMT Haneef Tayob 2010-05-11T18:49:29Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Tip-Exporting-to-a-really-stripped-down-older-dxf-format/m-p/138831#M14961 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><R>Thought i'd share this experience:<BR /> One of our engineers uses a 10 year old engineering package which obviously cannot read any of the recent cad formats. We set our export translators to translate to model space and acad2000 dxf format.<BR /> The engineers could open it but had problems with wall and column lines missing (very serious indeed).<BR /> We tried a whole lot of different options with the translators, without any luck.<BR /> <BR /> <B>What worked was when we copied and pasted the plans into a worksheet and then exported to dxf.</B> By doing this, everything gets converted to 2d elements, including walls and columns. I also do a search and delete of all unnecessary fills.</R></DIV> Tue, 11 May 2010 18:49:29 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Tip-Exporting-to-a-really-stripped-down-older-dxf-format/m-p/138831#M14961 Haneef Tayob 2010-05-11T18:49:29Z