AD19 schematic DXF/DWG output 'line style'

[PeteT]

Hello,

I am attempting to export a schematic in DXF for use by a mechanical designer (wiring diagrams etc).  Most of the output is fine, but it loses the difference in line styles between the solid/dashed/dotted/dash dotted (as well as line weights, which was less surprising with the way DXFs work). They all just come in as a zero width polyline, all on the same layer.

Does anyone know of a menu somewhere which helps define this? It doesnt necessarily need to look right, but would be helpful if the different line types were at least grouped onto different layers and then could be manipulated as a group.  Having to redefine which line is which is both time consuming and a source of errors creaping in.

Thanks,
Pete

[ajb]

This would be kind of a gross workaround, but maybe you can export the schematic as a PDF and then if your MCAD can't work from a pdf directly, move it through a vector drawing program that can save the pdf contents as a dxf. You might lose some structure in the pdf conversion depending on how altium does that (I've never tried to pick apart a schematic pdf) but might be preferable to what you have now.

Although as someone who used to spend a lot of time working in AutoCAD from other people's drawings, often I'd rather xref in a self contained file (PDF or otherwise) than directly work with someone else's file, it tends to just be easier to deal with other people's work that way.