Linked cad drawings not exporting back to cad

[mfanucs]

Hi all

I'm not sure if anyone else is experiencing this problem - couldn't seem to find anything in the previous threads.

We are working on a large retail development with a massive parking area - rather than trying to model the extremely large surface parking area we have drawn all the site info (parking, kerbs, paving, services, etc.) in a linked cad drawing. The drawing was linked into 'current view only' and then copied and pasted into other relevant views

So far this method is working well for us - until we recently tried exporting some drawings back to cad and the linked cad file shows up as a missing xref only - which we can't seem to get working.

We have tried importing the cad drawing as 'model' lines, but the export still doesn't work

any ideas would be extremely welcome!!!!

Marco

[sbrown]

I'm not sure why its not working, a linked dwgs becomes an xref when exported to autocad. So you should be able to bind that xref if you need it as one file.

[mfanucs]

whoops - looks like another ID 10 T problem - a bit of a mix up on our side.

its seems as if someone (hopefully not me!!) has linked the same drawing in twice from two separate file locations - effectively resulting in the same drawing name appearing in the database twice - and it seems Revit doesn't like the identical names.

i suppose it was an honest mistake - our office finally moved over to a server mid-way in the project - and this is probably where the mistake happened.

we're deleting all instances of the site plan and starting fresh.