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You can use this export option when needing to generate Microstation .dgn files from your Revit Project.

Firstly select the required Revit Sheets or Revit Views to be exported from the Xporter Pro main interface and then click the Export button from the ribbon.

The top half of the Dialog box contain the specific settings and options for the resulting DGN files as shown by the below image.

  • Export Level Options – from the drop down there are three options from which to choose. Export Category properties BYLEVEL and overrides BYELEMENT, Export all properties BYLEVEL, do not export overrides, Export all properties BYLEVEL, create new levels for overrides.
  • Define levels from – select from the drop down one of the predefined layer export standards (American Institute of Architects, ISO standard 13567, Singapore Standard 83, British Standard 1192) or select your own company customized standard export file if preferred.
  • Load Pattern From – click the browse button to define and load the required .pat file to be used with export.
  • Select Export Setup – select the required Export Setup from the drop down list.
  • Colors – Select from either Index Color (255 colors) or True Color (RGB Values)
  • Working Units – Select either Master Units or Sub Units.
  • General Panel – tick the check boxes as required to include / exclude options when exporting.  From the drop down list select either Microstation v8 or v9 Format as required.
  • Seed File – click the browse button  to define and load the required .dgn seed file for export.

The lower portion of the Dialog box determines the File naming, export location file format settings and file upload settings for the exported files as shown by below example.

General Tab

  • Folder Name Format Panel – provides the means to define your Export folder output location and naming convention. Use the Format codes list to create the desired combination for the folder name or use the browse button to navigate to an existing folder location. If you want to use the same output folder for all file types then tick the checkbox below.
  • File Naming Format Panel – provides the means to determine your file naming convention. Use the Format codes list to create the desired combination for the file name template (a sample preview is given as a guide). If you want to use the same file naming syntax for all file format types then tick the checkbox below.
  • Date Format – Use the date format options to select the required date format and date separator.
  • Export Formats Panel – is where you select the required output formats by checking the required boxes
  • Invalid Characters – if your file naming involves invalid characters tick the box for Xporter Pro to check and it will replace with the value entered such as a hyphen, dot, or underscore.
  • Publish Panel – if you want the resulting exported files to be automatically uploaded to an FTP or FileShare site then tick the box and configure the FTP settings on the FTP tab etc.
  • Create CSV Transmittal panel – provides the means to generate a CSV file to be used for aconex uploads.  Click the Config button to configure which Revit parameters you want to use as Export parameters / columns in the resulting CSV file.  Note that Xporter Pro will not actually perform the aconex upload.
  • Export Configuration Settings panel – provides the means for you to save your selected export configuration settings to an .xml including folder and file naming conventions so that you can load the .xml file back again at a later date with all the settings.

FTP Tab

To find out more about the FTP tab for automatic uploads click here


Citrix ShareFile Tab

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