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Representation in Exported DrawingObject Type
Dimensional constraints are removed.Constraints
Standard or dynamic blocks, with or without attributes, that
exceed the boundaries of the layout viewport will be converted
Standard or dynamic
block (with or without
attributes) to a new, anonymous block. Attributes are converted to text
objects in the block.
NOTE The Allow Exploding setting (a setting on the block
definition) is ignored if the block exceeds the boundaries of
the layout viewport.
Objects become non-annotative.Annotative objects
An Xref with nested objects that exceed the boundaries of the
layout viewport is converted to a block reference and exploded.
External reference
(xref)
Layout viewports are represented by either a polyline or the
clipped viewport object.
Layout viewport
Custom objects are exploded and converted to anonymous
blocks.
Custom objects
Xrefs clipped with the XCLIP command are converted to a
clipped block reference.
Xref clipped with the
XCLIP command
The 2D wireframe visual style is used.Visual Styles
Objects within a perspective viewport will have parallel projec-
tion.
Perspective viewports
NOTE Objects that can be directly trimmed without changing their types are not
listed on the table.
Visual Changes to Objects
Not all objects when displayed in a layout will display the same in the Model
tab of the exported drawing. This includes (but is not limited to) the following
instances:
The same object displayed in multiple viewports becomes multiple objects
in the exported model space drawing. In addition, objects are transformed
and often scaled. Both of these can affect data extraction of blocks.
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