I want my exported dwg look the same as in revit

[murat-demircan744994]

Hello everyone!
I really need your help. I want my exported dwg look the same as in revit. When I export dwg from Revit, it gives me dwg file with funny colors. But I want it look the same as in revit. Maybe screenshots will help to explain the problem.
I dont want to modify all layers in export window one by one. just I want the same look in Revit. 104836104837

Please somebody help with this problem.
Thanks in advance.

[CAtDiva]

A few questions:

1) Out of curiosity, why is this important to you?
2) Is the DWG you show exported from the Revit view you showed (or another view)?
3) Are you wanting to print it the same or just see it the same on the screen?

For printing, AutoCAD uses plot styles to turn the colors into different printed line colors and weights, so you could assign the desired lineweights to the colors of the exported DWG.

[murat-demircan744994]

A few questions:

1) Out of curiosity, why is this important to you?
2) Is the DWG you show exported from the Revit view you showed (or another view)?
3) Are you wanting to print it the same or just see it the same on the screen?

For printing, AutoCAD uses plot styles to turn the colors into different printed line colors and weights, so you could assign the desired lineweights to the colors of the exported DWG.

1) I am going to create sheets in autocad with dwg files exported from revit. I applied view templates to all my plans as I want and I want to have the same look. We are gong to deliver this to the city and this dwg with funny colors are not good to submit.
2) yes.
3) I want them both. But printing is much important to me right now. Once I can get the same view in Autocad like I have in revit, the it will be printed as how it looks I guess.
Any ideas on solution would be appreciated.

[DaveP]

I dont want to modify all layers in export window one by one.
That's the way you do it.
You modify the Export layers and create an export table.
If you don't want to use the process Revit has provided, well, then....

[murat-demircan744994]

I already manage floor/wall materials while I was drawing the plan, why would I have to spend time to make them look the same in drawing. It should has been the same in the first place. Maybe my english is not good enough to explain my wish here, but I still want to solve this issue.
Thanks for the replies.

[damon.sidel]

Your English is fine, but what you are asking for does not exist. You cannot export to DWG and get the view to look the same in Autocad as it does in Revit without modifying the export settings and having appropriate plot styles set up in Autocad.

Why do you want to create sheets in Autocad when you can create sheets in Revit? Even if you have some things in Autocad, you could have sheets in Autocad and sheets in Revit. Once you print to PDF or paper, nobody will know where it came from.

Do you have to submit the digital DWG files to the city?

[MikeJarosz]

Why are you modeling in Revit but using Acad to print? Revit can plot drawings on its own without all the extra steps to export to Acad. One cardinal rule when working in multiple software platforms is that exports/translations from one software platform to another are seldom perfect. Something will either be lost completely or not function as expected in the target software, as you are experiencing with "funny colors". The time you are spending on trying to make Revit behave like Acad would be better spent on learning how to plot in native Revit.

[DaveP]

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but you are aware of the "Select Export Setup" dialog aren't you?
That's on the Export DWG dialog
Click on the small button with three dots and you can create a table mapping Revit Categories to your standard DWG Layers and colors.
(I'd upload an image but I no longer have rights to do so on this site. Sorry)

[murat-demircan744994]

Yes indeed. We must deliver dwg files. They may be okay with different colours in digital file, but in paper, they want to have the look in revit. However I didnt try to print from Revit. If I do, can I get the same view on paper? Or am I just pissing into the wind?

[DaveP]

If you are not willing to use the "Select Export Setup" tool that Revit provides to do exactly what you're asking for, then; Yes, you are pissing into the wind.

[murat-demircan744994]

Maybe I needed to be convinced. Thanks for your replies.

[david_peterson]

If you're worried about printed pdf from a dwg, you don't have a lot of options.
the pen sets (.pcp) files are there to create your penstyle tables with. They are unique for each drawing.
If you're looking to get consistency of the drawings you'll need to write some scripts, and I'm not talking about 1 or 2.
Our CAD genius spent about 120hrs the last time we needed to do this on a project to convert everything to a client standard and then we still need to adjust text and things.
I know I've worked on state projects that required you to use Revit, and then provide them autocad drawings based on their standard.
After many years of trying to convince them they were wrong, they no longer care what the cad files look like.
I think you may need to lobby your city for a change.
Getting great Autocad files exported from revit takes a lot of work. If this is just for permitting, I don't know why they'd care what they look like.
Option B is you could set up a layer translate file to convert what's not part of a block to a correct company standard layer.
Just some thoughts.

[jesse806408]

I know this post was from a few years ago and not sure if this option existed then, but in Revit 2024 at least there is an option in .dwg export settings under the 'Colours' tab which will export colours as they are displayed in the view. I think this will do exactly what you want.

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And to the naysayers - wanting to export a dwg with the same graphic settings that you've already laboriously set up is a legitimate thing to want! I know colour-by-layer is how people have used autocad for decades and decades, but it is a pretty old school approach and a complex mapping back to layers shouldn't be, (and thankfully isn't) necessary. It shouldn't need to be said, but visual legibility, i.e. allowing people to understand what the important parts of very complex drawings is is incredibly important, (basically our entire job), and can't be achieved if you're forced to accept essentially random colour assignment to every element in your model.