Which template does Layout use to create a .DWG file when selecting File > Export > ‘Save as type:’ = DWG (*.dwg) > Save within Layout?
It doesn’t use any template, just your LayOut file. You can make a guess of the kind of conversion rules the exporter uses by comparing your LayOut file and the resulting DWG. The export settings you select also determine what kind of result you get.
Thank you Anssi. Another piece of context and question: the Drawing Units for the DWG that is created when exporting from Layout to AutoCAD is Decimal, as opposed to Architectural, Engineering, Fractional, Scientific, even though the Layout file’s Format is ‘Fractional’ under Document Setup > Units. What drove that choice of Decimal for the output file?
Some more contextual questions: ‘Architectural’ is listed first in AutoCAD’s Drawing Units list, but Decimal is selected each time for the Layout > AutoCAD file. AutoCAD’s Drawing Units list may simply be alphabetical, but the default appears to Decimal–> and so is that default AutoCAD’s choice, or Layout’s? And if AutoCAD’s, how is that selection made? And if Layout’s, same: how is that selection made?
I never use any exotic units in my exports, only millimeters so I haven’t tested how Myanmarian units behave. AutoCad files are basically unitless, the unit is only a system variable value that tells the application how to interpret the numbers in the file. I understand that Auto Cad is able to show units in the Myanmarian/Liberian style, but internally it stores values as decimal numbers. You could compare two DXF files in a text editor, one from LayOut and one from an Autocad file formatted to your specifications to see if the one from LayOut has a formatting error in the header. AutoCad documentation lists the values you should be looking for. If I remember right, the default units AutoCad assigns to an “unitless” drawing are decimal inches.