Matthew wrote:
Our consultants are getting frustrated however by having their linework sent back to them bound in a dwg file they then have to clean up before they can use.
I'm not sure, but firstly, there's a difference in Archicad between "attached" and "overlaid" XREFs. You may want to investigate that. In the Attach dialog, point at this line and right-click to get at the context-sensitive help, and read.
I've been advocating for a long time that it would be nice to have the master file store just a pointer to the XREF, and not binding in the whole thing, but I think they've have had problems doing that because of Archicad's database nature, as opposed to Autocad's being basically graphic.
However, there's an easy workaround. Create and save a viewset for export with a layer combination where all the xref's layers are off . Use this view when exporting, and export "visible layers only". This will give your consultants what they want.
AC4.1-AC26SWE; MacOS13.5.1; MP5,1+MBP16,1