Dialog call:- File > Settings > User > Interfaces > DXF / DWG export and import. Select the Export tab.
- File > Export > Command group Project data > Project data > Command group Page > DXF / DWG. Click [...] next to the Scheme field. Select the Export tab.
In this tab you specify the special settings for DXF / DWG exports.
Overview of the main dialog elements:
From this drop-down list, select a page filter that you created as a scheme in the page navigator. A filter selected in this way is stored in the DXF / DWG export scheme. If the saved filter no longer exists, the export is canceled and message is displayed.
A chosen filter is activated automatically. The "- Not activated -" entry deactivates the filter and causes an unfiltered display of the data.
Enter the storage location here. You can specify any drive and subdirectory as the target for the export. Click 
to open the Select folder dialog and then navigate to the desired directory, or create a new one.
You can use the Insert path variable popup menu item to branch to the dialog Select path variable where you can select one of the available path variables.
In this drop-down list you specify the default method for allocating file names when exporting DXF / DWG files:
- From consecutive number: If you select this option, EPLAN assigns default names to DXF / DWG files according to the <consecutive number>.dxf or <consecutive number>.dwg pattern. If DXF / DWG files already exist, EPLAN starts the numbering with the next available number.
- From the page names: If you select this option, EPLAN assigns default names to DXF / DWG files according to the <Page name>.dxf or <Page name>.dwg pattern.
- From properties: If you select this option, the file name is compiled from the page and project properties plus any freely-definable separators. Use the [...] button to open the Format: Property dialog to configure the file name.
In this drop-down list you specify the default method for generating subdirectories when exporting DXF / DWG files:
- None: If you select this option, no subdirectories are generated from properties during the export.
- From page tree: If you select this option, subdirectories that reflect the project structure are automatically generated during the export. If, for example, a function designation =A1 already exists in the project a subdirectory =A1 is created and all the associated pages are exported to it.
- From properties: If you select this option, the substructure name is compiled from the page and project properties as well as freely-definable separators or directory separators. Use the [...] button to open the Format: Property dialog to configure the directory name. Here you can use the "directory separator" format element, for example, to generate a directory structure with multiple subdirectories arranged one below the other.
Note:
For organizational reasons a project-specific subdirectory is created with this setting, to avoid any possible unintentional overwriting of older export files having the same name.
In this file you specify the ACAD line pattern for the transfer. The file is not delivered with the system and must be provided by the CAD program being used (e.g., ACAD.lin for AutoCAD).
You can use the Insert path variable popup menu item to branch to the dialog Select path variable where you can select one of the available path variables.
The plot style to be used when loading into ACAD is defined in this file, if you are using "named plot style tables" in ACAD. The plot style define here is recognized when AutoCAD reads the exported data and is taken into account as a default setting when printing. The file is not delivered with the system and must be provided by the CAD program being used.
You can use the Insert path variable popup menu item to branch to the dialog Select path variable where you can select one of the available path variables.
Notes:
- ctb files are not entered with their complete path in the export file. In order for the plot style file to be evaluated in AutoCAD it either has to be copied into the plot-style-specific directory of AutoCAD (in as far as it is not a ctb file that is contained in the installation scope of AutoCAD). By default this is the directory C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2015\R20.0\enu\Plotters\Plot Styles, whereby <username> has to be the name of the Windows user and AutoCAD 2015\R20.0 the corresponding version number of the installed AutoCAD system - the entry enu ("ENglish USA") can be replaced by a different language identifier.
Alternatively the default directory for plot style files can be entered in the options in AutoCAD (Options > Files > Path for printer support file > Search path for plot style table). - If the monochrome.ctb file is selected for the plot style file, this does not have the effect that the export is effected monochrome. It only means that the display and print output should be carried out in AutoCAD in accordance with the settings in the file monochrome.ctb. This can, however, be deactivated in AutoCAD through settings for the display and print output.
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