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DWG Translator - Grid Tool Marker Text not translating

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:29:03 GMT

I'm having trouble with the grid marker symbol not translating the text into AutoCAD. As you can see in the attached image, the grids will appear but the marker has no ID in it. If I explode the grid marker (block) in AutoCAD, it will show the attribute ID for the grid marker.

In the translator under Save Options I have it set to Explode complex ArchiCAD Elements but it still translated into a block. In a previous project, we used the 2D grid marker object which translated just fine. I'd hate to abandon the interactive AC grid marker because our official file format for exchanging data is in .dwg and it's more time consuming if we have to manually input grid marker text in AutoCAD.

Is there a work-around? Am I missing something? Is this a bug or something that needs to be reported to GS to be fixed?

Thanks!

Re: DWG Translator - Grid Tool Marker Text not translating

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:43:34 GMT

at my workplace i get grid marker symbol. But its not exploded in plan. It is some kind of intelegence object and if i double click on it it will be opened in enanched attribute editor in autocad
Here is a pic

And yes...you are missing something :
If previus files where exported fine i cant seee reason why they dont export fine now ???
Do you use same traslator as before?
Same archicad ?

as more stuff is defined in translator it will work better.

Re: DWG Translator - Grid Tool Marker Text not translating

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:44:23 GMT

NeckoFromSarajevo wrote:
If previus files where exported fine i cant seee reason why they dont export fine now ???
Do you use same traslator as before?
Same archicad ?

What I meant was previously we were using with the Column Grid Indicat_NCS 13 from the objects library. This may be the first time we are attempting the AC13 grid object with hope it's not as "buggy" as the previous versions.

I never intended to explode it to begin with - I worked with default settings in both the grid tool and DWG Translator and that's the results shown in my attached image. I only exploded it after opening in AutoCAD and that is when the attributes appeared with incorrect tags. Point is - I know there are attributes but it is not translating properly for me.

I noticed in your signature that you are using AC12. Is that where your translator example came from? I am using AC13 so I now wonder if it was something that changed in the new version upgrade. EDIT - no, same thing happened to in version AC12. So, if it is working for you - I will have to comb through my translator settings and see what needs to be adjusted.

Re: DWG Translator - Grid Tool Marker Text not translating

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:26:13 GMT

Problem solved! Found the setting that needed to be adjusted - see attached image:

Re: DWG Translator - Grid Tool Marker Text not translating

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:36:43 GMT

good work, im glad that you solved problem...I use archicad 13...i didnt change my signature...i will correct that.

Re: DWG Translator - Grid Tool Marker Text not translating

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:40:29 GMT

Glad you solved it. I've always left that checkbox unchecked because I have no idea what a "GOA Object" is. My ignorance worked in my favor I guess. Can anyone enlighten me?

Thanks,
Karl

Re: DWG Translator - Grid Tool Marker Text not translating

vistasp — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:09:54 GMT

Karl wrote:
Glad you solved it. I've always left that checkbox unchecked because I have no idea what a "GOA Object" is. My ignorance worked in my favor I guess. Can anyone enlighten me?

I thought it had something to do with the beaches of sunny Goa... until I looked more carefully at the screenshot above.

"GDL Object Adaptor" object.

Re: DWG Translator - Grid Tool Marker Text not translating

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:57:15 GMT

vistasp wrote:
I thought it had something to do with the beaches of sunny Goa...

It reminds me of one architecture teacher I had in college... He went there for vacations and never came back... Now I know why!

Re: DWG Translator - Grid Tool Marker Text not translating

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:04:34 GMT

Braza wrote:
vistasp wrote:
I thought it had something to do with the beaches of sunny Goa...
It reminds me of one architecture teacher I had in college... He went there for vacations and never came back... Now I know why!

Re: DWG Translator - Grid Tool Marker Text not translating

vistasp — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:07:21 GMT

Braza wrote:
vistasp wrote:
I thought it had something to do with the beaches of sunny Goa...
It reminds me of one architecture teacher I had in college... He went there for vacations and never came back... Now I know why!

What? He turned into a GOA object?

Re: DWG Translator - Grid Tool Marker Text not translating

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:29:32 GMT

It's possibe to see the grid lines in 3D dwg file?

Re: DWG Translator - Grid Tool Marker Text not translating

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:29:11 GMT

Catalin wrote:
It's possibe to see the grid lines in 3D dwg file?

You can open the DWG drawing as a library part and it will create the 3D GDL for the lines and fills. It does not convert text so the grid IDs will not come through and the lines will not be individually detectable. The only hotspots will be on the bounding box.

Re: DWG Translator - Grid Tool Marker Text not translating

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:29:08 GMT

Matthew wrote:
Catalin wrote:
It's possibe to see the grid lines in 3D dwg file?
You can open the DWG drawing as a library part and it will create the 3D GDL for the lines and fills. It does not convert text so the grid IDs will not come through and the lines will not be individually detectable. The only hotspots will be on the bounding box.

Sorry I was asking the other way, Archicad grid lines exported from 3D windows as a DWG. When I export in dwg i have only the text without the lines.

Thank you.

Edit: Solved! It must be uncheck Show as line in 3D View tab in Grid tool.

Re: DWG Translator - Grid Tool Marker Text not translating

Bill — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 13:58:31 GMT

I am having the same problem with the grid marker text not translating... and I do not have the same settings in the Custom Functions box.

Was this option moved to somewhere else?