I need to be able to send consultants .dwg files that respect the building view options. (doors should create openings in walls, etc.) Currently we are setting up files in the following manner:
Reference my Building View into the default model of my sheet file at true scale. Switch to the sheet model and reference the default model and scale it down to the required drawing scale to fit the sheet. When i perform a save as .dwg, the drawings reverts to the master model top view losing all Building View settings.
Is there a process or setting i am missing?
To work with autocad you must create a DEM to give them something they can use.
Your BV is still a 3d model and to import that you must import to revit and that is a whole different discussion.
Ustn since 1988SS4 - i7-3.45Ghz-16 Gb-250/1Tb/1Tb-Win8.1-64bEric D. MilbergerArchitect + Master Planner + BIMSenior Master Planner NASA - Marshall Space Flight CenterThe Milberger Architectural Group, llc
If you "vectorize" your BV first by doing a Save As V8 DGN with the "Merge References" setting toggled ON, that new DGN should save to DWG with the proper graphics.
I realize that it's then a two step process, but the way I look at it, most of the time it's still quicker than having to calculate an extraction and then save that to DWG... which is also a two step process.
Steve - the suggestion is still just another way to get a DEM file - which is OK.
But as you build a project it is the slower way and has NO Batch capabilities
AND settings are lost and have to be reset which can cause you having to redo things over.
While performing simple tests i get mixed results. When creating a .dwg using DEM the results are as expected. When creating a .dwg after "vectorizing" the BV I get an unusable .dwg file. Of course i could be doing something wrong. I have attached these files for your use.
The DEM allows something though. You can batch update all your dwg files needed with DEM. Something you cannot do with BV
<emilberger> wrote in message news:107649@communities.bentley.com...you cannot adjust the tolerence in the BV product though what they have is better. The DEM allows something though. You can batch update all your dwg files needed with DEM. Something you cannot do with BV http://communities.bentley.com/Products/Building/Building_Analysis___Design/f/5917/t/47237.aspx#107649
regards / Thomas Voghera
the point is if I have to vectorize all my drawing wy even have BV. I would just stick to DEM.
BV is the best way to go there is just a need for some speed an optimization as thsi software is ahead of the hardware at the moment.
And then there are things that need to be fixed. It is just hard to trust these items will be fixed as i have issues like centerlines that only worin in east-west sections but do not work on ANY other sections, nor with any form that is rotated 1 degree off 0. That is a major feature on a for but ahs had issues for ten years and the latest TR last Jan. With still no results,
Our livelyhood is with Bentley but there are many times we don't know if Bentley truly listens as things that make a differnce in a drawings are put aside while buttons get pretty or get worse.