_Anthony Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 When I send off my MEP 2012 drawinng to clients who do not use MEP they see orange triangles at connection points on drawing. How do Iset it so they do not see this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Are you Exporting them to AutoCAD? Do your Clients have Object Enablers installed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Anthony Posted January 29, 2013 Author Share Posted January 29, 2013 No. Should I be exporting to Acad. Where would I find enablers to send to client. Is exporting easiest way to take care of this issue, client not very tech savy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzframpton Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Best way to handle outside clients is to export to plain AutoCAD, which will explode all the AEC Objects and purge them out. The end client sees no residue of the AEC Objects within the file that is what makes up AutoCAD MEP. However, if this is a client you have a good and continuing relationship with, then by all means suggest to them to download and install the Object Enablers. Link here: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=2753223&linkID=9240618 They can still export to AutoCAD on their end, and will work just fine as long as the Object Enablers are installed. O.E.'s only let you "see" the AEC Objects but no touching. Still have to export so it converts to 2D linework so in the end it's always best if you do it for them, but that'll be your call to make. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Anthony Posted January 29, 2013 Author Share Posted January 29, 2013 Can you please explain procedure to export to plain AutoCAD from MEP 2012. Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzframpton Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 File > Export > AutoCAD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithBrown Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Are you Exporting them to AutoCAD? Do your Clients have Object Enablers installed? Autocad has not needed an object enabler since around 2010. This is of course means that the people you are sharing with needs at least autocad 2010. The enabler is built in. If you are going to export to autocad you should make sure that you export your drawing in an isometric view if you plan on sharing your drawing in 3D. If you do plan on sharing your drawing in 3D you will get better results using the convertto3dsolids command. Just make sure to save your drawing first so the and do not save the solid drawing over your mep drawing or you will lose all of your intelligent objects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Anthony Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 (edited) I Tried Export, but triangles still show on standard AutoCAD program. I do not see 2012 MEP enabler on web. Edited January 30, 2013 by _Anthony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzframpton Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Autocad has not needed an object enabler since around 2010. This is of course means that the people you are sharing with needs at least autocad 2010. The enabler is built in.Awesome!! Didn't know that. Thanks for the tip. I Tried Export, but triangles still show on standard AutoCAD program. I do not see 2012 MEP enabler on web.Go to the View Tab > MEP View Panel and turn off the "Solution Tips". Or type SOLUTIONTIPS at the command line to toggle the view as well. That's what these triangles are for any unconnected node (conduit, pipe, duct, etc). Then try and export; see if this yields better results for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithBrown Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 I Tried Export, but triangles still show on standard AutoCAD program. I do not see 2012 MEP enabler on web. If you are still seeing solution tips after an export then the export did not work correctly. The solution tips (triangles) are only available on MEP objects and not standard autocad objects. When exporting from Autocad MEP what you are really doing is converting the MEP objects to standard Autocad objects. It stands to reason that if you are still seeing the triangles then the drawing was not exported correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Anthony Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 It seems like simple process...but when I go to export it only allows dwx file Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithBrown Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Try it this way instead. Click on the Big A in the upper left hand corner and then select Export. From there Select Autocad and then the version of Autocad you want to export to. Just make sure that your drawing is in an isometric view otherwise it will create a 2D drawing instead of a 3D drawing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Anthony Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 Thank you for your help. It is much appreciated. I am not at my computer right now, but I believe it looks to convert to different format then dwg. I am looking to export to standard dwg...correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzframpton Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Thank you for your help. It is much appreciated. I am not at my computer right now, but I believe it looks to convert to different format then dwg. I am looking to export to standard dwg...correct.Follow Keith's tip. It gives you both DWG and DXF options on the list of export options. Alternatively you can type -EXPORTTOAUTOCAD at the command line (including the dash) and use the command line version of the export tool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Autocad has not needed an object enabler since around 2010. This is of course means that the people you are sharing with needs at least AutoCAD 2010. The enabler is built in. OBJECT ENABLERS They are available and MY AUTOCAD 2011 needed them. I find nothing on the Autodesk site indicating they are preinstalled, please post a link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadludde Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 A good tip I think for ACAD/ACAD LT users is that they can type in AECTOACAD themselves if they already have recieved drawings with aec objects (ACAD MEP, Arhitecture etc). As default there will be a new file created with the prefix ACAD- containing only CAD entities. /Patrik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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