When exporting a 2D file from a 3D using the File-Export 2D I noticed that under the Civil Standards tab down under Survey it is using "Settings" rather than our "MDOT" settings. The 3D file has "MDOT". I read another comment on here that was similar and saw a defect had been filed awhile ago, but I think this is slightly different than that. I believe this is causing us some issues in how we want the 2D file to come out, and would like to know how we get the created 2D file to use our settings when it is created. We can't use the workaround posted for the past defect, this needs to be during file creation. If we can't get it to read our settings, what .dgnlib file does that "Settings" point to so I can try to edit that?
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Thanks for the reply Chris, and sorry I didn't get back earlier. I've been having trouble logging in from my one computer. As to your question on why we would want to do that, I'm not really sure. I'm a 3D person myself, but there are apparently units here that still want and use a dumb topo file so we need to provide that.
The process you mentioned on doing the Export to .dgn graphics is what we've been doing, then a File->Export 2D. The problem we are running into is in a majority of files the 2D file ends up larger than the 3D file size wise. The last job I was involved with was a 60mb 3D file, but after the export to graphics, 2D export the 2D file was 90mb with no Terrain model, no 3D model, and no intelligence. This has not made any sense, and that was the worst case I have seen. This is why I'm looking into alternative ways on going about this, because that method is holding onto something and increasing the size. What I've found is if I make a copy of the 3D file, delete the Terrain model, then do the export to graphics/2D export it doesn't carry over whatever is causing the size increase. The example above resulted in a 30mb 2D file going that route. I hate adding steps to our workflows- especially when it involves creating more copies of files. I was hoping to find a way to do a File-> Export 2D from within the 3D file that just stripped out all intelligence, Terrain Models, 3D models, etc.
With SS4 when I do the File-> Export 2D it creates the file, but when I try to open that 2D file the software just hangs up and never fully loads it. Doing the export to graphics step doesn't seem to increase the file size, but it isn't really reduced either. It stays roughly the same, but this file can be opened. I will upload the SS3 3D file.