2023 VW -> DWG

[maxstk]

Hi all, 

I have searched and read through some inconclusive threads regarding exporting files to .dwg. 

I'm hoping with the 2023 software that there have been improvements and I'm just missing them. 

I am trying to export my plan sheets into .dwg for my MEP engineers. I've tried 6 different exports with different information included/excluded and every time my single sheet comes out to around ~168mb. When I open this in autocad, it's a laggy unusable mess. When I attempt to import the PDF and extract lines from it in cad, it also does not work. 

Surely there's a simple solution. Please advise and thanks in advance. 
 

[Jeff Prince]

That’s not typical behavior.  Are you trying to export single sheets to autocad in 2D or something else?  You might check to see if you have some unused images floating around on a design layer, check that unneeded design layers are turned off in the appropriate sheet viewports, review your dwg export setting to make sure they are appropriate.

[maxstk]

Thanks for your response, Jeff. 

After some investigation and help from a VW tech named Dylan I was able to reduce the files to an appropriate size. 

The error in my drawings was that I have ~70 bike racks with bikes in them (this is a lot of 3D data) and this caused a huge file size. So, for anyone else having trouble with this, move complex 3D geometry that is not critical to a new class and hide them before the export. 
 

[kayceyH]

Hi there, I have been having the same problem however I have the 2022 version, I can import a DWG File and make edits however upon export nothing exists, I have done this about 50 times and no different results

[Jeff Prince]

6 minutes ago, kayceyH said:

Hi there, I have been having the same problem however I have the 2022 version, I can import a DWG File and make edits however upon export nothing exists, I have done this about 50 times and no different results

 

On 10/28/2022 at 7:36 AM, jeff prince said:

That’s not typical behavior.  Are you trying to export single sheets to autocad in 2D or something else?  You might check to see if you have some unused images floating around on a design layer, check that unneeded design layers are turned off in the appropriate sheet viewports, review your dwg export setting to make sure they are appropriate.