I have a new Dell T7500 with 12GB RAM running SolidWorks 2010 / xp64. I am trying to export a large drawing (single sheet) to dxf or dwg. Everything seems to work ok, but when I open the dxf/dwg file it is empty. Sometimes I can see the drawing in the thumbnail preview however.
The file is blank in SolidWorks and AutoCAD. Any idea what could be the problem ?
I did some testing and it seems I can export to PDF just fine. During one of my dwg export tries, it saved the lines and dimensions I added to the drawing view, but did not export any of hte model generated lines.
Unfortunately these are DoD related models so I cannot share any of the drawings.
Smaller files seem to export just fine, but medium to large files do not.
Old thread but I am having a similar issue. Whenever I try to export/save as DXF on a large plant layout, the resulting file is blank. Saving each machine from the layout works just fine.
Is there some type of limitation in SolidWorks for the DWG/DXF format?
Joshua, did you ever figure out a fix for this?
Sorry, I never found a solution to this.
Joshua,
If you are saving to a network drive, try and save it to your hard drive?
also try when saving a dwg/dxf, there is a options button check and make sure what Autocad Version you are saving out as, mine is set to 2000-2002,
Frank
Hi Joshua,
What happens if you save it out as a pdf or an edrawing?