Export CAD Drawing (Drawing Conversion)

Export Options

Export coordinate measure: Imperial or Metric.

This option affects the scale of the .dxf, .dxb, .dwg or .dgn drawing and any materials that are depicted on the drawing. It does not affect dimension labels or labels or any other text in the drawing. Imperial outputs the drawing coordinates in decimal inches, while Metric outputs the coordinates in millimeters.

Export Format: DWG or DXF or DXB or DGN. Choose the file format that you prefer.

AutoCAD Version: Unspecified or R10 or R11/R12 or R13 or R14 or 2000 - 2002 or 2004 - 2006 or 2007 - 2009 or 2010 or 2013 or 2018.

Note: To export ellipses or stack fractions , the version must be R13 or higher. To export images , the version must be R14 or higher. After version R14, Autodesk began to name their versions after the years in which they were released.

Stack Fractions: or .

Stack fractions Stack fractions

If the box is checked, fraction are stacked as a single text object.

If the box is not checked, fractions are not stacked and are numbers separated by slashes.

Note: For DXF or DXB or DWG, the AutoCAD version must be R13 or greater.

Fill holes: or . This applies when the Export format is DXF or DWG.

Fill holes Fill holes

If the box is checked, holes in the exported drawings will be filled in.

If the box is not checked, holes will be circles that are not filled in

Lightning Rail™ Export Options

Lightning Rail™ compatible: or .

If the box is checked, the drawing output is unshortened, without annotations and dashed lines. This provides compatibility with Automated Layout Technology's Lightning Rail CNC marking machine for the layout of commercial handrails. It may also provide compatibility with other technologies that use similarly formatted drawing output.

If the box is not checked, drawing output matches the original SDS2 drawing.

Export Views in Separate layers: or .

If the box is checked, the selected Views to Export are placed on their own layers, each named for the corresponding view (for example, Main_View or Top_View).

If the box is unchecked, the default drawing layers are used.

Adjust view orientations: Rotate horizontal or Rotate to fit table

When Rotate horizontal is selected, the longest view of the handrail is forced to display horizontally.

When Rotate to fit table is selected, the longest section of the handrail can be rotated incrementally to fit within the table using the Length and Depth specified in this window.

Length: Sets the length of the table that the handrail will be exported to.

Depth: Sets the width of the table that the handrail will be exported to.

Note: These length and depth values are used to determine how the handrail view is rotated in the drawing.

Notify if view(s) do not fit: or .

If the box is checked, a warning will open letting you know that the longest view will not fit on the table.

If the box is not checked, there will be no warnings regardless if the rail will fit on the table or not.

Views to Export: Allows you to select which of the member detail views you want to be included with the Lightning Rail export. The Lightning Rail™ compatible box must be checked for these views to be selectable.

Export: Opens the Select Piecemark or Select Detail Sheet window to proceed with the 2D export.

Cancel: Closes the Export CAD Drawing window without exporting any drawings.

Reset: undoes all changes made to the Export CAD Drawing window since you first opened it. The window remains open.