CAD Export - Odd Behavior with a Component

[saeborne]

Hi All,

I have an electrical outlet family, that behaves oddly, when exported to CAD.

The electrical family is in the Electrical Fixtures category. Within the component family, I have a nested generic annotation family, that is the plan symbol of the duplex. We do this so the duplex symbol will be the same size, regardless of scale.

When I export to CAD, the duplex symbol always exports to the A-ANNO-NOTE layer.... Yes, I still have MEP engineers who are working in CAD. I can't get them to upgrade for many of my projects.

No matter how I fiddle with the DWG Export layer mapping, I can't seem to get it to work. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

[dkoch]

In the Generic Annotation Family, if you create a unique subcategory for electrical symbols, and then load that into your outlet family and load the outlet family into your projects, you should then be able to map that subcategory to the layer of your choice.