3D model appearing in Cross section DWG exports

Question

Hi Everyone, 
 I am currently trying to export my cross sections from open roads designer to DWG auto cad format. 
 
 However no matter what setting I try on my export the DWG files seem to contain the 3D model (as shown) I have tried disabling 3D settings within the References Tab within the export utility with no luck. 
 
 Any ideas? 
 
 Thanks in advance!

Mike Longstreet · Answer

Hello, I tried this and it did seems to work. I exported my DGN to DWG and toggled on the Merge Visible Edges and did get a DWG file with sheet models that had 2D graphics (i.e. Visible Edges) of the cross sections. I created my Sheet Models at drawing scale rather than sheeting to 1:1 paper scale and received 2D "to scale" graphics of my OpenRoads cross sections. So our general practice is to scale the sheet to match the to-scale graphic plan, profile or cross sections. Rather than "Reference Scale" the "to-scale" graphic drawing to match a 1:1 paper size. This also helps when we enable our Geolocated plan sheet plots 
 This will be very useful for delivering graphics to downstream users where the 3D sliced reference is not something they will be able to read or use. Sometimes just having the visible 2D edges is exactly what we need. Thanks.

Chris Andrew · Answer

Chris, Have you tried using Cached vs Dynamic Settings in the reference Manager? 
 My guys had issue with this, which resulted in them creating a copy of the sheet and merging the references in the copied sheet prior to export, this worked a treat.

Mark Shamoun · Answer

Hi Chris, 
 
 Make sure this setting is enabled in your DWG export options.

3D model appearing in Cross section DWG exports

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