Exporting DWG's

[Anonymous]

We are trying to export a dwg from ArchiCAD 10 in a format that will match what our client wants. One of our big problems (there have been many) is that we have a number of layouts for diferent plan views etc & our client wants one dwg with everything in. Whatever we try we still seem to get a separate dwg file for each layout, even if single dwg is selected in the translator.

Is there any way to export multiple layouts from ArchiCAD to the paper space of a single dwg file with the model space present as well?

Since this is how AutoCAD users work how else do Graphisoft expect us to produce drawings?

[Laura Yanoviak]

mark.leslie wrote:
Ideally we want one dwg from multiple layouts.

This is just bad practice (The 8th rule of CAD: "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should").

[Anonymous]

Laura wrote:

mark.leslie wrote:
Ideally we want one dwg from multiple layouts.

This is just bad practice (The 8th rule of CAD: "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should").

Good rule!

I thought about the problem because we had a bit similar situation: the plan itself is huge, but was split on many A3 layouts - everytime after export client got a number of incomplete "model space" plan views.
My suggestion (but I've didn't checked it out yet on pratice) is to replace in each *.dwg file a block with incomplete model view to external reference to the complete model space view. Tricky, huh, but should work.
I understand why they asked for complete thing - it's the way civil engineers work - they need whole picture.