Comments on Revit Rants: Export to DWG Known Issues

You need to use a masking region, not a filled reg...

2009-06-05T07:16:47.707+10:00

You need to use a masking region, not a filled region. A masking region is a solid white fill but its handled differently with exporting.

I can not find an option for NO Pattern, So I use ...

2009-06-05T05:43:18.633+10:00

I can not find an option for NO Pattern, So I use Solid White fill, Transpartent and get a black box where my filled region is.

How do I get the No Pattern option

Anonymous, You just answered your own statement. ...

2006-12-06T08:13:00.000+10:00

Anonymous,

You just answered your own statement.

The devil is in the detail...

White "NO PATTERN" fills export and print fine.

White "SOLID FILL" fills export and print black.

HTH.

3. White, no pattern fills created in annotation f...

2006-12-06T07:35:00.000+10:00

3. White, no pattern fills created in annotation families or any family for that matter export to AutoCAD and print as solid black making the annotations unreadable. FIXED

In relation to this - I am operating on Revit 9.1 and this problem still occurs. When I use a white solid filled region and export it to Cad it still shows as a solid fill that prints black.

I find the roof patterns get exported when you've ...

2006-11-20T10:20:00.000+10:00

I find the roof patterns get exported when you've used the linework tool on the roof to show it dashed over... Its rather annoying.

If you spend the time continually resolving your layers export file in revit and set it up to match your lineweights and styles for your office standard ctb file you can get a pretty good print that gets close to matching the revit print.

I do find however that ever now and again you'll get a strange colour exported to a line, this is usually because its not defined in the layers export file and needs to be added.

HTH.

There are also still issues with some linework not...

2006-11-03T11:08:00.000+10:00

There are also still issues with some linework not exporting from elevation views.
And in plan views, fill patterns (in particular on roofs) sometimes get exported when they aren't visible.

We've tried converting the PCP to CTB and the line...

2006-05-25T05:13:00.000+10:00

We've tried converting the PCP to CTB and the lineweights come out correctly, but all the colors plot in greyscale (translated colors)even when I edit the CTB file and set them to black (setting it up similarly to our standard CTB files) all settings.

At the moment it is useless. If we could generate ...

2006-05-24T08:25:00.000+10:00

At the moment it is useless. If we could generate a useful CTB file from the given PCP file then our consultants could plot Revit generated DWG files that look like a Revit product, but the linewieghts (and other factors) don't translate right yet.

Interesting, I've never even tried to use the PCP ...

2006-05-22T08:21:00.000+10:00

Interesting, I've never even tried to use the PCP file and always considered it pretty much useless...

But good point.

the PCP file should reflect Revit’s lineweights EX...

2006-05-20T11:26:00.000+10:00

the PCP file should reflect Revit’s lineweights EXACTLY

And it should support special characters (like stacked fractions). Right now if you export to dwg, stacked fractions (and the text they share a block with) get erased.