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[Josh Huskins]

Good morning!  To those who have sold plans and offered a .dwg option to purchase, how do you do this when running live annotated elevations? I'm not seeing a clear way to export the elevation unless it is done in lines. Am I correct with this?

 

I do not have CAD anymore to check and see what it looks like when you export the annotated live elevations. 

 

Any feedback on this would be appreciated. Thanks all!

[Matthew Dunson]

I love using the Annotated Drawings feature for elevations and I often do have to export to a .DWG format. What I typically do is create a Plan Set (whether with or without a border) to define the scale of the drawing once I add it to the Plan Set. When you drag the elevation on to the Plan Set, it will ask if you want it shown in Model or in Annotated view (of course select Annotated for your context). Then I go to 'File', 'Export', and then '.DWG or DXF'. This method imported the drawing perfectly for one of my clients using AutoCAD. From what I know, the drawing imported into AutoCAD as individual lines. Some objects like text, wall groups, or paint groups may stay connected as whole items, but I have not experimented personally with AutoCAD to test what it converts to lines from grouped objects inside SoftPlan. I am also unsure how it imports into AutoCAD if you directly export from the drawing tab of the Annotated Elevation, but I always practice adding it to a Plan Set for scale purposes.

[Josh Huskins]

This is the exact way i do this as well. I am just curious if anyone else has been able to open it in CAD and everything work as it should

[Richard Rubinski]

Josh, can you create an account with Autodesk to view your dwg file of the Annotated Elevations? Below is the link that I used.

 

Thanks

Rick

 

https://softplan.com...plan-set-pages/

[Thomas Roman]

Autodesk offers FREE DWG viewers..

 

online = Autodesk Viewer

 

or as a download = DWG TrueView

[Richard Rubinski]

Autodesk offers FREE DWG viewers..

 

online = Autodesk Viewer

 

or as a download = DWG TrueView

For some reason their online viewer doesn't work as well as the DWG desktop viewer. Steve from tech support said he was using the in the one you said and all is well.

 

Thanks

Rick