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July 14, 2020
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SAVE AS to DXF/DWG not appearing in menu

  • July 14, 2020
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What happened to these options in the Save As drop down menu?

Correct answer ICR Marketing

yes, of course it should be there. are you suggesting I remove and re-install Illustrator 2020? 


so I didn't necessarily do anything other than quit/re-start both my Mac and the application. I was advised by AdobeCare to try retting my preferences, which I was about to attempt, but upon checking just now, the issue is fixed and I don't really know how or why those options are now restored (Export As). thanks for everyone's input. (I wish I had taken a screenshot earlier so people didn't think I was making it all up 😛 )

 

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DayTripperLennon
DayTripperLennon
Participant
March 30, 2021

What worked for me is I scaled my artwork 25% of it's original size, and pasted onto a new document, and there they were. 

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    Darrin Hunter
    Participating Frequently
    February 15, 2022

    THIS IS INFURIATING!

     

    The design industry that works in experiential graphics within real full-scale architectural space has been SCREAMING at Adobe for YEARS to allow 1:1 full-scale drawings so we don't have to screw around with scaling drawings or using plugins like HotDoor CAD Tools to do so.

     

    Just to take a dimension of something in a scaled drawing and having to do the conversion math all the time with vendors on the phone wanting sizes is an unncessary hassle. With a 1:1 drawing, you click an object and read its dimensions off from the Illustrator toolbar. Done.

     

    And now, after they actually implement full-scale drawing within Illustrator, THEY TURN AROUND AND HOBBLE IT by removing exporting to CAD file formats at full-scale.

     

    That makes absolutely no sense in terms of interoperability with AutoCAD.
    You ALWAYS draw at full scale in AutoCAD.

    What a giant pain in the a** this company can be.

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      ericc3095897
      Participant
      September 11, 2020

      I just had this same problem. I'll try restarting my PC to see if the export option comes back.

      UPDATE - restarting my PC didn't help. The full Export As options I used to have aren't showing up. All I have are JPG, PNG, PSD, SVG, TIF, TXT.

      UPDATE THE SECOND - So the file I was trying to export still doesn't show a DWG option. As an experiment I opened a file that I previously successfully exported, and I was able to do so again (DWG was once again in my Export As list). Realizing that this new file is 240 inches long, I wondered if there is a physical limit of the Canvas size that's causing my problem, and I believe that if the canvas size is over 227 inches wide then DWG is 'turned off.'

       

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        renatoporfirio
        Participant
        July 14, 2020

        U can try file/export/export as...
        If you use this option a lot, you can make a shortcut (edit/keyboard shortcuts) 

          ICR Marketing
          ICR MarketingAuthor
          Participant
          July 14, 2020

          export  or save as DXF / DWG is not available as an option in Illustrator 2020; I still have a copy of Illustrator 2019 and the option appears there, however. Did something change? are these options something in the preferences that I have to enable in 2020 now? If so, I've never had to do that in the past. 

          ICR Marketing
          ICR MarketingAuthor
          Participant
          July 16, 2020

          So has anyone come up with any solutions, or do I continue to use my older version of Illustrator instead of expecting it to work on Illustrator 2020 ?

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