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publish to DWG with no fills?

Anonymous — Fri, 19 May 2023 20:21:24 GMT

I have two publish sets.
One for PDF publishing and another one to DWG.
For the PDF set I want to generate drawings with all fills (walls, slabs, etc.) For the DWG I want to publish the same PDF drawings but without the fills, so that I don't have hatches in autocad.

Is it easily doable?

Another workaraound that I may be happy with is to generate DWG in a way that I have no block references. Just ACAD entities.

The issues was raised when I generated DWG to deliver to the other contractors, who don't want fills in the walls, slabs, stc...

Many thanks for all inputs

Re: publish to DWG with no fills?

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:57:25 GMT

You should save separate Views for PDF and for DWG.
The main difference will be Model View Options settings. For DWGs, you can check the Show Cut/Cover/Drafting Fill Contours Only checkboxes in that Dialog. You can also use the Fill Background field's Transparent option.

Re: publish to DWG with no fills?

Thomas Holm — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:28:28 GMT

A wish - since you need these views for DWG export only, they should be translator settings - strip fills (drawing/cover/cut), hairlines only, etc etc.

Re: publish to DWG with no fills?

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:43:31 GMT

laszlo: many thanks for the tip. the down side to it is that I would need to update both pdf and dwg views in case something changes (e.g., layer add)
thomas: that was where I first look - in the translator settings - and found nothing. a wish indeed it is!

Re: publish to DWG with no fills?

Erika Epstein — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:09:22 GMT

Thomas wrote:
A wish - since you need these views for DWG export only, they should be translator settings - strip fills (drawing/cover/cut), hairlines only, etc etc.

Thomas,
Can you make this a wish?

Re: publish to DWG with no fills?

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:37:32 GMT

jagostinho wrote:
laszlo: many thanks for the tip. the down side to it is that I would need to update both pdf and dwg views in case something changes (e.g., layer add)
thomas: that was where I first look - in the translator settings - and found nothing. a wish indeed it is!

Well, in case of Layers: if you save a Layer Combination with the View, then later the View refers to the Layer Combination. So in case a Layer is added, you can just modify/edit the Layer Combination and the result will be correct. This is why a View should not contain a custom layer combination in it, instead always a named and saved Layer Combination.

Re: publish to DWG with no fills?

Thomas Holm — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:42:51 GMT

Erika wrote:
Thomas wrote:
A wish - since you need these views for DWG export only, they should be translator settings - strip fills (drawing/cover/cut), hairlines only, etc etc.
Thomas,
Can you make this a wish?

Done, along with a couple of others that I've been nagging about.

Re: publish to DWG with no fills?

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 10:30:20 GMT

Hi
in publish organizer window I have just PDF option to publish. How can i add DWG format also?

Re: publish to DWG with no fills?

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 10:41:22 GMT

Sorry
Problem solved