Can you 'checkout' from SVN without getting all the .svn stuff?

Maybe there is a proper term for this, but what if you want to simply download a specific revision of a file/directory to disk and never want to commit any changes - say as part of a build/release process - and you don't want the SVN meta information. Is there an easy command for this? Is this what export does? Or is that for dealing with "un-SVNing" an existing checkout?