When exporting to dwg or dxf my block instances all get piled in one place instead of where they are placed in my rhino file…is there a way to avoid this ?
Hi Giusseppe,
Please run SystemInfo and post the results, a small example file of your 3dm file would be helpful as well.
Does bringing back the dwg into 3dm come in correctly?
A quick test didn’t show your issue.
when I re import the exported file the leaves are mostly clustered at one point
stj-gates-leaves.dwg (809.5 KB)
stj-gates-leaves.3dm (18.0 MB)
SYSINFO.txt (12.8 KB)
I tried ungrouping the leaves before exporting but it didnt help
do you have Autocad ? maybe they are fine in that…I cannot test
most of the blocks(leaves) have reverted to the position of the original block definition at the base
See this as well when opening in Autocad. Guessing it has to do with the non-uniform scaling but will have dig into it more, not seeing any existing youtracks on the subject.
We are looking into it and will post a youtrack.
Here is a workaround that will hopefully keep you going.
I created a new block for each leaf.
stj-gates-NewLeaf.zip (16.3 MB)
thankyou for the new blocks…did you have a method for doing that quickly ? I hope you didn’t do one at a time !
no long at all, two shakes of a lambs tail 
I didn’t save the first run, so this wouldn’t replace the ones i gave you earlier…
R8-NewLeaves.gh (11.3 KB)
Very useful…the odd occurence is that the definition remains on the original layer and the instances are on the new layer…so you have to have both layers visible before you can see the new blocks…I have been trying to move everything from the old layer to the new with no luck…I am guessing that it is best to use the original layer name when creating the blocks so that there is only one layer to deal with…thanks again
yes, the non uniform scaling is the cause, I believe…I just flattened all the leaves in the Y direction and the exported dwg file exhibited the same problem whereas the unscaled leaves (new) all appeared in the correct place in the dwg file
If I apply your Push Content to the adjusted leaves then the export works correctly
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Hi @giusseppe,
@Japhy came up with a very good work around. But there are problems to fix in Rhino.
We have logged RH-86518/Blocks-Export-to-DWG-Is-Incorrectly
and RH-86517/Block-Panel-Incorrectly-Displays-Transformation-Data
Also the 3DM opening in AutoCAD incorrectly, may be a bug to log with Autodesk. I made a tracking issue in our system, and will notify Autodesk of this issue.
They write the 3DM importer in our OpenNurbs, so it could possibly be a bug in that tool kit as well.
RH-86519/AutoCAD-Open-3DM-Incorrect
We will notify you here where there are fixes available.
Thanks for the bugs and the fun example of your Rhino work.
Sincerely,
Mary Ann Fugier
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Let me know when there’s progress on the Export to DWG / 3DM import issues have progress, as I’ve build a set of templates in Rhino for our work stuff which eventually will need to be imported to Autocad for our folks who don’t have Rhino (although I’m working on that)…
Thanks.
I look forward to seeing how you figured it out…