DWG export creates area text blocks for each fill !!!

[alexliz24]

When we open a DWG export from ArchiCAD 10 in AutoCAD 2006, for every fill that was exported, there is a text block with the covered area. No fills have the 'Show Area Text' option checked, so how on earth do I tell ArchiCAD to _not_ generate these numbers? They litter the DWG all over the place. I've searched the forum, and the DWG translator options, but haven't found a solution yet.

Many thanks, people.

[Anonymous]

There is no solution! Sorry!

It is an AutoCAD fault - there is an object, called "wipeout", which serves to mask any other objects behind it. It is characteristic not only tor text blocks but for all the fills (hatches), walls, labels, etc.

It should have been possible to select all of them and delete them using the Filter command, BUT the wipeout object is the only object that cannot be selected with this command!?! Probably in AutoCAD 2008 it will be included in it!

[alexliz24]

Thanks for the reply. Is there anything at all that I can do to easily get rid of these area numbers _before_ I send the DWG files to colleagues?

[Anonymous]

I do not know any such tricks! You could only clean up the mess in Autocad when you make the .dwg. But it is painstaking.

You could delete about 60% of the rubbish by isolatinf th "0" layer and deleating everything in it.

I found that even dedicated Autocad users did not not know this "tool" and have never used it!