I am trying to create a DXF to send out for manufacturing, and I do not want the drawing border to be included. How can I turn off the Automatic Drawing Border?
I am trying to create a DXF to send out for manufacturing, and I do not want the drawing border to be included. How can I turn off the Automatic Drawing Border?
Good call Rick McDonald. A slightly different approach would be to copy the sheet and paste it at the end of the document, rename it so the next person has a chance of understanding whats going on, delete the border off that and then save that sheet as the dxf. Then you have only one document.
Scott, we do a lot of DXF conversions for our vendors but we never use existing documents. (We've simply encountered too many instances where the scale does not come through at 1:1, but that's a story for another day) If you need to use existing documents refer to what's been suggested by Rick McDonald and Bjorn Hulman as I do not have a lot of experience there.
What we did, is make a blank template file with no borders. We simply pull our model views in to the template and save out as a DXF to send to the vendor. Pretty darn straight forward.
Do you want to remove title block information also? If yes, you could go to the sheet properties and de-select "Display sheet format".
Another way you could do it is make a new template and a new layer then select all the lines and wording and add those to the new layer, that way you could turn it off or on etc..
Look into creating a layer map file. When you export a dwg or dxf file it will put everything on layers so you can turn things on/off as needed.
Chris
Can you explain to me what you mean by "layer mapping" - I have never heard this before.
I always just assigned items to layers manually by selecting the layers.
Rick, you can setup your templates to automatically place dims, annotations, tables etc onto specific layers in the document properties dialog. once you've done that, set the templates layer to -Per Standard-. This will take out the manual assigning steps.
I'll let Christopher explain the mapping process, or you can check out http://www.javelin-tech.com/blog/2010/09/export-dwg-with-layer-mapping/#.WHUDZVWLRS4
Bjorn Hulman wrote:
I'll let Christopher explain the mapping process, or you can check out http://www.javelin-tech.com/blog/2010/09/export-dwg-with-layer-mapping/#.WHUDZVWLRS4
This is exactly the link I was looking for. this is how I learned about it.
Chris
Bjorn Hulman wrote:
Rick, you can setup your templates to automatically place dims, annotations, tables etc onto specific layers in the document properties dialog. once you've done that, set the templates layer to -Per Standard-. This will take out the manual assigning steps.
Just to add to your comment Bjorn Hulman - do yourself a huge favor and use the Copy Wizard to save your settings and also save the Drafting Standards along with all your templates, might take some time, but it'll be a good day when you need those settings back.
Haha, Yes!!! Copy settings wizard!! I can't believe i forgot to mention it.
Thanks Bjorn Hulman
I had setup my layers as you show so that certain annotations or dimensions ... would be on specific layers (that's what I meant by manually setting them - I should have been more clear.)
I had just never heard of the "Mapping".
Thanks for the link, I keep learning new things every day even though I have been using the tools for years.
Rick McDonald wrote:
I keep learning new things every day even though I have been using the tools for years.
You got that right
The Automatic border can be assigned to a layer, which can be turned off at the time of printing.
It would be nice if there were a way to turn off the "Automatic" border.
Scott, we have a macro that moves certain types of geometry/dimensions/etc. to a specific layer then turns off that layer. Then just Save As DXF and when asked if you want to include hidden layers just click No.
One of the advantages of this macro is nothing is ever deleted. We run in directly on any of our .SLDDRW files and X out of the file (if you saved before running this, you won't need to confirm close). If you do save the file after running it, Just go to your layer manager and turn the layers back on. It's all there.
This macro is a bit rough. It is provided as a starting point for you to expand for your specific needs.
Thanks. I will give that a try.
I found a workaround that works well for me.
Right click on the sheet, and select "Properties." On the "Sheet Properties" page, uncheck "Display Sheet Format." I think this also hides the title block, but I don't have one of those on my DXF template.
If it was a .dwg I would say to put the border on a different layer that you could then set (in the layer options) as don't print.
I have not tried this on a .dxf so I don't know if it would work.
However, if you do a Save as to your drawing, delete the border on that and then save as a .dxf it should remove it from the .dxf - but also means you have an extra drawing.