topic Re: Printing a ghost layer? in Project data & BIM

Printing a ghost layer?

lagodue — Tue, 30 May 2023 11:02:54 GMT

One of my floor plans (storage above a kitchen ceiling) I now show as a second story with ghosted first floor. In PlotMaker, the ghosted story will not appear - only my second story specific lines and notes.

Am I missing something here? Shouldn't the ghosted lines show up in PlotMaker?

Re: Printing a ghost layer?

TomWaltz — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:24:52 GMT

Nope. Ghost stories do not appear in Plotmaker.

It's a LONG standing question that I'm sure a search would turn up dozens of posts about.

Re: Printing a ghost layer?

Steve Jepson — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:21:47 GMT

nasty little thing about PlotMaker. Here is one of the things I do to compensate.
Drag a copy of what you want on the ghost story off to the side. Explode it. Delete the fall out you don't want. Group. Change color. Put on sperate layer. Sometimes I even save it as a .gsm.

There are some other ways to compensate for no ghost stories in PlotMaker. None of them are as convenient as having the ghost story from ArchiCAD show up.

Re: Printing a ghost layer?

__archiben — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 06:00:02 GMT

Steve wrote:
Drag a copy of what you want on the ghost story off to the side. Explode it. Delete the fall out you don't want. Group. Change color. Put on sperate layer. Sometimes I even save it as a .gsm.

nasty method! far easier, not to mention keeping the data live, to place a different view of whichever storey you want to ghost below the drawing you are placing in plotmaker.

ensure the top drawing is set to transparent, and change the pens on the bottom drawing to suit your needs (fade-back, punch-out, bit of both, whatever) . . . all you need it two hotspots to line them up (one on each drawing).

HTH
~/archiben

Re: Printing a ghost layer?

Steve Jepson — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 06:29:32 GMT

Yes. That is the proper way to do it. It will also give you better control than the settings available for a ghost story in ArchiCAD.

The only reason I ever use other methods for a PlotMaker ghost stroy is because of the increase in update time for PlotMaker with extra drawings added.

Updating adds a serious amount of time to every project I have used PlotMaker for. Having to do it 100 times or so is not uncommon. I am always looking for ways to reduce this time. It makes PlotMaker not worthwhile for me on small projects where the advantages of PlotMaker are not very important.

Re: Printing a ghost layer?

aahatimo — Mon, 15 May 2006 15:36:30 GMT

TomWaltz wrote:
Nope. Ghost stories do not appear in Plotmaker.
.

is this still true w/ v10?

Re: Printing a ghost layer?

Anonymous — Tue, 16 May 2006 06:06:05 GMT

aahatimo wrote:
TomWaltz wrote:
Nope. Ghost stories do not appear in Plotmaker.
.
is this still true w/ v10?

Ghost stories still don't print, but the drawing updates are lots faster so overlaying drawings has no downside and the advantage of better control.