Convert multiple viewports in a master file to 2d lines

[nahekul]

Is there a way to convert multiple (more than 10) viewports that is referenced either from different files and from the same file but different scales into one 2d line drawing?

 

I've tried converting this to PDF and then importing it back into Vectorworks with "snap to geometry". But ungrouping it just turns it into a white rectangle. 

[Neil Barman]

HI @nahekul, If I may ask, what are you trying to achieve?

[nahekul]

Just trying to get a consolidated line file for the consultant team to work off of as a basic background.

We have a master site plan file with 5-6 apartments and multiple townhouses all on their own separate vectorworks files, as well as civil and landscape drawings. 

 

A lot of the viewports show a much bigger area than we want to export (city scale in the case of civil). 

 

So if there is a way to export just the crop of the sheet layer viewport as 2D lines, then it would be easy for other consultants to use it as their background.

(They also don't want to use PDF as their background either since the PDF includes extra information they don't need). 

 

I've tried converting the PDF to DWG in Illustrator as well but the PDF has too much information (over 15000 objects), it would just crash. 

[E|FA]

Someone may have an easier way.  If you need to keep the lines as lines, I think you could export as PDFs, then re-import the PDF into VW.  If you ungroup the PDF, you will get three (?) groups, one of which should be the linework as Lines, which you could then Export as EPSF for 2D use, or as a new PDF with the other info cleaned out.

 

If you just need the drawing as an underlay, use Export as Image

[nahekul]

12 minutes ago, E|FA said:

If you just need the drawing as an underlay, use Export as Image

 

Thanks, this will probably be what we have to do. 

 

Ungrouping the PDF lost a lot of the line work for some reason.