20 Identical AC11 Windows = 20 AutoCAD Blocks

[Anonymous]

If I export a floor plan that has 20 identical windows, the resulting DWG file has 20 different blocks -- one for each window. Is there any way to get identical objects to output as identical blocks -- outside of an AutoCAD-based conversion program?

[Shivang Rajvir]

Srinivas wrote:
Even if you switch off the auto Id increase and then place doors and windows with the same ID number, archicad will export them as a block with unique name.

Agreed but if you place same parametric doors whithout changing its orientation and flip and export with the Translator : "as is output"; the block will carry same kind of the doors or windows.

[Srinivas]

Shivang wrote:
Agreed but if you place same parametric doors whithout changing its orientation and flip and export with the Translator : "as is output"; the block will carry same kind of the doors or windows.

Not Quite sure what you mean by "as is output" can you kindly let me know. am I missing some thing.

[Srinivas]

Srinivas wrote:

Shivang wrote:
Agreed but if you place same parametric doors whithout changing its orientation and flip and export with the Translator : "as is output"; the block will carry same kind of the doors or windows.

Not Quite sure what you mean by "as is output" can you kindly let me know. am I missing some thing.

By "As is output" you mean to say use the translator "For as is output" that's still not helping it still exports blocks with unique names, I just checked.

[Srinivas]

Jay,

You might want to try this program, that's a shareware for a 30 day trial period.

http://www.caddproductivity.com/blockreplace.htm

Tom did you look into this program already, this will definetly save time in replacing the blocks.

[Ralph Wessel]

Karl wrote:

Jay wrote:
Is there any way to get identical objects to output as identical blocks

Not that I know of. It would technically be feasible to generate a single block for identical windows, e.g. - but it could slow down the export tremendously, which is why I imagine GS did not do it.

That kind of comparison is quick and easy, and might even prove faster in practice than creating a unique block for every window/object.