V7 dwg/dxf export bug

[Steve Cashman]

Any updates on this drawing export bug in 7.0?

[eldad]

I have the same problem exporting to dwg from 7. Revit just crashes, this is a huge problem to us, as we need to send DWG's to our consultants.
I exported a few DWG's and the problem seems to be with a particular sheet (door schedule) that contains a schedule, a generic annotation family and a few doors elevations.
I hope a fix will be provided soon, we can't afford to not have dwg export...

P.s
Always bind your DWG's and not bind insert which will scatter your drawings and dimension. this problem is not only with 7 but with 6.1 as well.

[eldad]

Just to confirm the above:
I took out the generic annotation family out and the export worked fine... I wonder why?

[Steve Cashman]

We submitted a problem project file to Revit for review. They called me again today to let me know that they're working hard in this. I hope to hear from them again tomorrow.

I'll try exported from some other views and sheets to see if that makes a difference.

[sfaust]

any news on this yet? I just ran across it when exporting elevations on an upgraded project. I've exported plans and everything seemed to be fine, just elevations are messing up...

Steve

[Steve Cashman]

any news on this yet? I just ran across it when exporting elevations on an upgraded project. I've exported plans and everything seemed to be fine, just elevations are messing up...

We sent our file to Revit support and they found the culprit. In our case it was a problem wall. I would suggest the same.

[Martin P]

This was an old bug I came across could be a similar solution? When you bind xrefs from exported Revit files, some blocks can have the same name and will cause odd behavior - revit creates hundreds of blocks for many weird things - some hatches for example. It not only happens when binding xrefs but also when you export more than one sheet at a time (this was fixed in 6.1 but appears it may be back....)

I find the best way round it -

export 1 sheet at a time..............
When binding xrefs you get 2 options - Bind with the bind option not the insert option (gives you horrible layer names etc, but works!!)

Another example of why we need to be the option to be able to export WITHOUT hundreds of xrefs. more often than not we all have to bind them anyway as it is just too confusing otherwise.