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exporting 2d&3d drawings to a power point point presentation

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:16:12 GMT

i have my elevations,likewise my floor plans in 2d and my perspective in 3d, using archicad 11. how do i export them to a microsoft office power point, so that i will be able to use it for presentation?
note: am a beginner in using archicad. i have saved those drawings with archicad e.g : jetty.pln

Re: exporting 2d&3d drawings to a power point point pres

Dwight — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:06:07 GMT

Welcome to our forum. Please post your computer type and Archicad version in your forum signature so we can help you better.

You need to make images from your Archicad files.

Save any view as a JPEG image "Save As".

In Mac, we can make screen captures of parts of the screen as we like.

For PC you need an extra utility i think.

You can use your marquee to define areas on screen to be "printed," then in Mac, print to PDF. These files import to Powerpoint. Perhaps there is similar on PC.

This is enough to get started.

Re: exporting 2d&3d drawings to a power point point pres

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:22:00 GMT

YEAH, I GOT IT. IT WORKS. AM SO EXCITED. THANK YOU SO MUCH, DWILIGHT, AND THANKS TO ARCHICAD TALK

Re: exporting 2d&3d drawings to a power point point pres

Dwight — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:32:38 GMT

Dwilight is that moment just after sunset each day when all Archicad Forum members think of me.

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Re: exporting 2d&3d drawings to a power point point pres

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:41:12 GMT

THANKS to Dwight Atkinson. sorry for the wrong spelling in my previous post. you have indeed lifted up my burden. i appreciate the quick response. once again, i say thanks a million times

Re: exporting 2d&3d drawings to a power point point pres

Dwight — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:48:18 GMT

i was just making a joke.

Re: exporting 2d&3d drawings to a power point point pres

Anonymous — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:39:43 GMT

Dwilight is that moment just after sunset each day when all Archicad Forum members think of me

ha ha ha

Re: exporting 2d&3d drawings to a power point point pres

Djordje — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:31:20 GMT

Once upon a time, simple copy and paste worked also.

Dwilight ... perfect! Dwight, this deserves a new chapter in your existing books and the Artlantis one, too!

Re: exporting 2d&3d drawings to a power point point pres

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:40:00 GMT

Yeah, I am really interested to know if we can just copy and paste like AutoCAD enables you!
In AutoCAD you can copy and paste it in Power Point and if you open in another machine you just double click and it reopens in the AutoCAD if you want to edit it! What a cool think and it's sad that AC doesn't have this option!

Re: exporting 2d&3d drawings to a power point point pres

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:02:16 GMT

I know one thing that is supposed to work: select paragraphs of text in Word, copy them and paste them into ArchiCAD. Text Blocks with formatting will come through.
But I do not know if this works from AC to Powerpoint.