topic Re: AC11 to Autocad 200 dwg in Collaboration with other software

AC11 to Autocad 200 dwg

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:21:45 GMT

Hello - While I'm waiting for the large file "ArchiCAD Collaboration Interactive Training Guide USA 1.1" to download, could someone please walk me through the process to successfully translate a floorplan from AC11 to an Autocad 2000 dwg file. It's a very different animal from using AC9.

All I want to do is send a floor plan to this client as a dwg that she can use. She is using Autocad 2000 and works in modelspace. She would like the plan to be at 1/8" scale.

I have the floor plan drawn at 1/4" scale in AC11. How can I succesfully get her this as a dwg file, with my fonts, lines weights, etc in tact, and at the scale she wants.

Is there any way to see what it might look like when she opens it? - I don't have Autocad available - I'm on a Mac using the Powermac version of AC11.

Thanks

Re: AC11 to Autocad 200 dwg

TomWaltz — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:09:47 GMT

I didn't remember the translator changing from 9 to 10 (or 11). What are you finding different?

You have little hope of getting the fonts the same on both ends.

to get the drawing itself to export, make a Defined View of it in your View Set, then link that into your Publisher Set (I did that in AC9 as well).

The real trick is customizing the translator. I usually recommend just going through the settings and looking for things to experiement with.

If you want to look at it, I like to use eDrawings, which is a free DWG viewer for Mac.

Re: AC11 to Autocad 200 dwg

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:14:44 GMT

The big change that I'm getting used to is not working from Plotmaker. When using AC9 I would save the dwg from Plotmaker layout.

Re: AC11 to Autocad 200 dwg

TomWaltz — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:29:00 GMT

You can do that from AC10 as well, it's just all in one program now.