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Clean Export

  • Clean Export Tool Overview
  • Manual Clean Export Steps
  • Related Webinars
  • Troubleshooting

Our Clean Export tool provides a quick way to generate a clean copy of your drawing, an important step in our recommended manual drawing cleanup process.

Clean Export Tool Overview

You can quickly export a clean version of your drawing using our Clean Export tool:

 

F/X Admin ribbon

 

F/X Admin ribbon, Clean Export flyout

F/X Admin menu

 

F/X Admin menu, Clean Export option

 

 

 

F/X Admin ribbon, F/X CAD

Manage ribbon, Clean Export button (F/X CAD only)

 

 

 

or type AECTOACAD in the Command line

 

 

 

You'll now have a completely clean version of your drawing, with a filename ending in -CLEANED, in the location where you originally saved your drawing.

Manual Clean Export Steps

Don't want to use our automatic Clean Export tool? You choose to complete the manual process for creating a clean export instead.

 

1. Type -ExportToAutoCAD in the Command line and press Enter.

 

 

Format

2. When prompted with Export options, type F for Format.

 

 

Press Enter.

 

 

 

3. When prompted to Enter file format, type 2013.

 

 

Press Enter.

Enter File Format

 

 

 

Export Options

4. When prompted with Export options, type B for Bind.

 

 

Press Enter.

 

 

 

5. When prompted to Bind xrefs, type N for No.

 

 

Press Enter.

Bind Xrefs

 

 

 

Export Options

6. When prompted with Export options, type P for Prefix.

 

 

Press Enter.

 

 

 

7. When prompted to enter a Filename prefix, type a period (full stop).

 

Press Enter.

 

Enter filename prefix

 

 

 

Export Options

8. When prompted with Export options, type S for Suffix.

 

 

Press Enter.

 

 

 

9. Type a suffix for the exported file, such as -clean.

 

 

Press Enter.

-CLEAN suffix

 

 

 

10. Press Enter again.

 

 

 

11. Save the drawing.

Related Webinars

  • Drawing File Cleanup: Addressing DWG Corruption: Drawing corruption is a major source of headaches and lost work for CAD designers. We walk you through the process of cleaning your drawings and show you some effective techniques for detecting and troubleshooting corruption when it strikes. (1 hr)

Troubleshooting

Issue: Changing layer colors or editing layers causes linework to disappear in a drawing or Xref, even after you've tried some or all of our manual drawing cleaning steps, including Clean Export

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