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Is there a way to save the defaults we want when exporting files to dwg? I set them in my default drawing but they always revert back. Thank you.

Hi Dan,

No, I don't believe there is a way to easily do that. If you start a new blank drawing with all the settings you want, and then import the DWG, that would get you some of the settings, at least. But no GTV's, and things like that.

Thanks Neil but I need the defaults for exporting to dwg not importing. I thought they would be saved with my default drawing but that isn't the case. It's a pain having to check and uncheck the boxes every time we export a drawing. We always want knockouts on (default is off - not sure why) and don't want 3D entities decomposed to 3D faces.

Thanks Roger. Not sure how I missed that.

Make sure that you have your color palette set for the translation to DWG.

For those who don't know it is NOT a straight color-to-color translation (ie. green to green, brown to brown, etc.), and the colors that you choose to be translated to in Acad may not be an exact match if you're trying to have them be the same visually on screen. You should also create a CTB file in Acad that assigns the pens to the appropriate translated colors - it will be easier for who you are sending the DWG file to when they try to print it on their end.

You may find this topic handy...

DXF/DWG Color Index Mapping Table
http://forum.datacad.com/viewtopic.php? ... tte#p37981

Thanks for all the helpful info gentlemen.

Dan