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Your idea is good Autobot: despite the total dxf and dwg compatibility declared by Nemetscheck, there are always problems jumping form an app to another. About dimensioning and text problems: i bet my.. wel.. let's say i guess that they come from the insertion of text and dimensions in design layer and not in presentation layers. Pressentation layers were introduced in Vector only with version 11. Before that, we had to use layers with different scales to compose the printable sheets. May be that some people is not able to use this "new" feature and uses text and notes is a specific layer put over the others and with a different scale from the others. well.. dont know. i try to guess. I also belive this is why we have the option of export all design layers in 1:1 scale to dxf and dwg. I have done some tests with my files and, as i told u, if the guys who recieve my files must work on them, i dont export quotes and not necessary texts. Another way is to add to those work files the files with only presentatin layers with all notes, texts and quotes in viewports. So thsy can have a comparrison. I guess i' getting verbal.. sorry... if u'd like to do some tests, we can exchange files so, u can tell me wich problems there are and i can tell u if and how can be solved with vectorworks! Or u can send me the files that had problems and i see how my vector opens them again (Normally the difference is not that big when i open again my own dwgs) A question: do u work only in 2D or also in 3D? I do both... well... hope to have news form u!

I'd like to have that guide too! it would be simply great to get rid of all exporting problems to autocad! And, as a VW user, i can say i have the same problem with dxf or dwg files from Autocad. I guess the problem is that the 2 apps have a totally different way of organizing the drowing job. Based on my experience, i can say that the best way to export dxf or dwg file to autocad (if the files must be edited) is to create separate files for the exporting, delete all the presentation layers and simply enable the exporting classes as autocad layers. Doing that, i know that the autocad user will have separate layers that maintain my organization. The big problem comes with quotes: i usually create quotes on the presentation layers' viewports. In this case there is no way to have them back if u delete the presentation layers. But, if the file simply has to be used as a starting point in autocad, i dont see any reason to export quotes. Well.. if u are landscape architects (i envy u so much! ) ) u can ask to set the altimetric quotes in a specific class inside the design layers. And.. that's all i can say about exporting to autocad... it's also a matter of luck: i the file will be opened by a totally brainless guy, everything can happen! P:S. I'm new in here and... i'm italian.. so, i hope u forgive my limited enlgish (i've learned it watching movies! lol). And i'm happy at the most for have found a forum of VW users: here there is nothing like that!