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    Default DWG-export, help with blocks and layers

    Hi.

    I have a problem getting my layers correct when im exporting my structural plans from Revit to DWG. I know that beams and columns export as blocks unless u edit the families and check "export always as geometry". The problem is that some beams export as lines and some as blocks even though the beams belong to the same family. Why is that?

    I've done a lot of work with my layer-setup to get the layers-names and -colors right, and i was hoping there is a way to export everything as geometry (lines) and get rid of the blocks?

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    Default Re: DWG-export, help with blocks and layers

    I'm not sure this is going to be much help, but I know we've done a bunch of projects now that required us to deliver cad files to a cad standard at the end.
    Every time we do this our Cad manager spends about 80-120 doing set up and testing. And at the end of the day, you're still left with a terrible cad file.
    IMHO you'll never export a Revit Struct model to cad and get high quality results. What it exports is a lot of junk. They will never be as good as a cad file that you created in Cad.
    We've written many scripts to manipulate the exported cad files to get them somewhat compliant. but again, this requires a large amount of work.

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