With the latest vectorworks, all groups are exported to autocad by 'naming or numbering' the groups. This causes problems when multiple vectorworks files are inserted in autocad drawings - having numerous blocks with the same name, but actually are different blocks.
Katie mentioned that the exporting of groups have changed because autocad cannot edit anonymous blocks.
Is there any way to have an option when exporting so that we can either name the groups or not name them depending on the circumstances? In a lot of instances, we don't want to xref every small file, especially when the client wants just one autocad file to contend with. Also, many of our details, etc. that we have been using for years have lots of groups within the file, which we find are easy to work with. Finding them would be time consuming, even if using a script. Adding this feature in the export would be greatly appreciated - right now we feel that we are going backwards when working back and forth with autocad.
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With the latest vectorworks, all groups are exported to autocad by 'naming or numbering' the groups. This causes problems when multiple vectorworks files are inserted in autocad drawings - having numerous blocks with the same name, but actually are different blocks.
Katie mentioned that the exporting of groups have changed because autocad cannot edit anonymous blocks.
Is there any way to have an option when exporting so that we can either name the groups or not name them depending on the circumstances? In a lot of instances, we don't want to xref every small file, especially when the client wants just one autocad file to contend with. Also, many of our details, etc. that we have been using for years have lots of groups within the file, which we find are easy to work with. Finding them would be time consuming, even if using a script. Adding this feature in the export would be greatly appreciated - right now we feel that we are going backwards when working back and forth with autocad.
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