Export Walls to dwg without Components

[cberg]

Does anybody know of a good way to cleanly export walls to dwg (as 3d objects) so that they only have exterior faces and no interior schtuff. I'm sure it has something to do with the class organization of my wall components...

[zoomer]

Will it work if you assign all components to "Wall Class" ?

As it does work for example for Windows and Doors if you assign the same Class

to inner and outer Frame, to get a single Frame Geometry.

Not very comfortable if you have to adapt each Wall Style just for an Export.

If you need it more often you could duplicate all your Wall Styles for an export

Version that you will assign temporary before an Export.

Another Idea could be to make a Duplicate of your VW File and try to combine

your Walls by "Add Solids" and maybe convert everything to generic Solids

in the end.

Depending on where to export the Walls to and what to do with them,

Conversion and Boolean Operations may be easier in the target Software.

[cberg]

I just learned to deal with it. :-) Doesn't appear to be a good answer to this. Thanks for the help!

[zoomer]

What do you do with those DWG Exports ?

For Visualization purposes where that unwanted complexity is hindering ?

Learnt to deal with it,

in the form of having complex Walls in DWGs

or duplicating the file and edit your Wall Styles ?

[nubourne]

I'm very interested in this topic too! I know it's been a while since anyone's posted to the thread. I work as a scenic designer for theatre and several of my colleagues still use AutoCAD. When I send them my VW turned DWG file none of the walls appear in any view except for top/plan (dwg equivalent?). Has there been a fix to this? Is there a way around it? Thanks!