Thank you both for the tips. Unfortunately I don’t have AutoCAD so can’t experiment with the overkill command.
As for my latest workflow, so far it seems that the hidden geometry does not show up in the exported DXF when using a style with the following settings and rendering the view as a Vector in Layout.
Edge
-Edges Checked
-Profiles Checked set to 2
Face
-Front Color Set to White
-Back Color set to White
-Style set to "Hidden Line Mode
-Transparency Checked
-Quality set to Faster
Background
-White
-Sky unchecked
-Ground unchecked
Modeling
-All unchecked except
-Section Cuts checked
-Section Line Width set to 4
-Section Fill checked
-Section Fill Color set to white
In Layout, I set the Line Scale of each model window down to 0.10 pt
This results in a very simply looking style that works fine for my Consultants to use as a background.
Here is the Style I created for this.
DWG Exports.style (3.7 KB)
There still are a million unnecessarily segmented lines, but without AutoCAD Overkill, I guess I’m out of luck for now.
SketchUp/Layout Team, if you can, please study how AutoCAD’s Overkill algorithm works and try to implement some process that would give us a clean WYSIWYG DWG, DXF and PDF exports.
Note, My system kept crashing on exports, and in the end, I think it was because I had a model window for Datum Heights grouped with some line work. This is normally not a problem on my PDF exports, but kept crashing with a vector based DWG export. Ungrouping seemed to fix the glitch.
Also, in general, Layout is painfully slow with rendering the model views of these vector sections of my design. I’ve done everything I know to do regarding best practices making the model efficient with both reduced polygons and limited texture sizes. I’m begging the Sketchup Team to Please, Please, Please find innovative ways to speed up Layouts rendering of model views and general working environment. CAD software should let me work at the speed of my thoughts, Instead Layout has me taking way too many coffee breaks, which ends up breaking my flow and ability to get things done.
Thanks