General Options for DWG/DXF Export

Use the General tab of the Modify DWG/DXF Export Setup dialog to specify settings for export to DWG and DXF.

• Click File tab ExportOptions (Export Setups DWG/DXF). Select the setup to modify. Click the General tab.

Room, space and area boundaries

Select this option if you want rooms and areas to be exported to a DWG or DXF file as closed polylines.

• Area polylines are generated from area plan views only.
• Room polylines are generated from floor plan views or ceiling plan views only.

Note: For MEP features of Revit, this option also applies to spaces.

For rooms, the exported polylines match the boundaries of rooms in Revit. The room boundaries are exported onto a single layer, and that layer is turned off by default in the DWG file. The polylines include the following XDATA information for room boundaries: Name, Number, Occupancy, Occupant, Department, and Comments.

For areas, the polylines include the following information for area boundaries: Name and Comments.

Note: These room and area features are primarily intended for users of architectural features and MEP features of the software.

Non-plottable layers

Select the Make layers containing the following text not plottable option to mark as non-plottable any layers whose names contain the specified text.

Note that the text box is inactive if the option is cleared.

Options

• Hide scope boxes: Select this option to hide scope boxes in the exported file. Clear the option to include scope boxes.
• Hide reference planes: Select this option to hide reference planes in the exported file. Clear the option to include reference planes.
• Hide unreferenced view tags: Select this option to hide unreferenced view tags in the exported file. Clear the option to include unreferenced view tags.
• Preserve coincident lines: Select this option to include coincident lines in the exported file. Clear the option to omit them. See About Exporting Models with Coincident Lines.

Default export options

These options define default values for the Export CAD Formats dialog when you use this export setup.

Export views on sheets and links as external references: Clear this check box if you want any Revit or DWG links in the project to be exported to a single file rather than to several files that reference each other.

Export to file format: Select the desired AutoCAD format from the drop-down list.