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Exporting to DWG: Fills with Background colors

David Collins
Advocate
When exporting to DWG format I select “Export fill backgrounds as additional solid hatches” in the DFX-DWG translator. I can see the result in the DWG TrueView viewer and it looks fine.

But I’ve never had to work in Autocad. What actually happens in the DWG when I do this? Do walls have two hatches associated with them? Is this a pain for consultants to work with? Should I take pity on the poor guys and set all my fill backgrounds to transparent?
David Collins

Win10 64bit Intel i7 6700 3.40 Ghz, 32 Gb RAM, GeForce RTX 3070
AC 27.0 (4001 INT FULL)
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Minh Nguyen
Graphisoft Alumni
Graphisoft Alumni
Hi David,

Than you for the question!

I rarely have to work with AutoCAD but we have detailed this in the User Manual of Archicad: https://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/user-guide/129038/

Maybe someone who frequently works with DWG can share their experience about this?

Best regards,
Minh

Minh Nguyen
Technical Support Engineer
GRAPHISOFT