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different layers for doors ext/int?

Mats_Knutsson — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:29:50 GMT

Hi,
I got the question "How can I export the dwg so that doors in external walls and doors in internal walls end up in different layers in the dwg-file?".

Any clever ideas?
Cheers,
/Mats

Re: different layers for doors ext/int?

Barry Kelly — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:02:16 GMT

The doors would have to be in walls that are on different layers for internal and external in the first place before you export to DWG.
Then you will have control with the translator for what goes to what layer in the DWG.
Barry.

Re: different layers for doors ext/int?

Thomas Holm — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:33:18 GMT

Barry, you can set the DWG translator to put doors and windows on separate named door/window layers (separate from the walls) in the DWG file.
However, AFAIK you cannot put doors or windows on separate layers depending on what wall layer they reside in in Archicad. Thus, your suggestion will not separate the d/w from their respective wall layers anymore.

Please correct me if I'm wrong!

Re: different layers for doors ext/int?

Barry Kelly — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 04:11:46 GMT

Thomas wrote:
Barry, you can set the DWG translator to put doors and windows on separate named door/window layers (separate from the walls) in the DWG file.
However, AFAIK you cannot put doors or windows on separate layers depending on what wall layer they reside in in Archicad. Thus, your suggestion will not separate the d/w from their respective wall layers anymore.

Please correct me if I'm wrong!

Sorry, I wrongly assumed that doors and windows might stay in the same layer as the wall they belonged to.
My bad - I should look at the translator settings a little closer.
I don't use it very much so I was really just assuming what would happen.

Definitely you can specify the layer you want all doors and windows to go into - that is all door and all windows into particular layers.
They can't be split based on there original layer if you do this.

But if you don't specify a layer will they stay in the layer of the original wall?
This is what I assumed would happen but I haven't tested it.

Barry.

Re: different layers for doors ext/int?

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:12:27 GMT

Actually you can. There's the "Insert Source Layer" button in the above image.

Re: different layers for doors ext/int?

Thomas Holm — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:38:09 GMT

restricted wrote:
Actually you can. There's the "Insert Source Layer" button in the above image.

Thanks, restricted! I've missed that button.

And Barry, you're right that

if you don't specify a layer will they stay in the layer of the original wall

Re: different layers for doors ext/int?

Mats_Knutsson — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:27:24 GMT

If I get it right <Insert source layer> just adds the mother layer to the window/door layer name.

In over-standardized Sweden many parties want windows on separate layers depending on what layer the wall has.

So in the exported dwg-file windows in external wall must have another layer than windows in internal walls...that is if you want to go by the book. Not everyone is so strict.

/Mats

Re: different layers for doors ext/int?

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:02:48 GMT

For example:
If you specify the Windows layer as "<SourceLayer>" then the layer name will be exported as "InternalWall". (same layer as the walls)
But if you specify the Windows layer as "Windows-<SourceLayer>" then the layer name will be exported as "Windows-InternalWall".

And there's another option "Layer Name Conversion" in the translator settings dialog. Here you can select the "Windows-InternalWall" layer to change into any layer name you specify. So the final layer name can be whatever the name you want.

Re: different layers for doors ext/int?

Mats_Knutsson — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 06:56:27 GMT

Source layer doesn't work for us regarding windows/doors.

We have been using simple bylayer conversion up til now (AC14) but will change to pen-to-layer in AC15 which gives us all options. There will be more favourites (ext-win and int-win and so on) but will give total flexibility.
/Mats

Re: different layers for doors ext/int?

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:24:06 GMT

Hello, I need help. I read everything about translators and I've been using ArchiCad for about 10 years now, but the translators never seemed to work right.
Now, i am trying to publish some files as DWG and the layer translation doesn't work for me. Every time I open the file in Autocad the doors are still on the A-EWALL layer (the wall layer) not the custom assigned A_DOOR layer.

What am I doing wrong?
Thank you.

Re: different layers for doors ext/int?

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:51:23 GMT

So you specified a custom layer for Doors like in the attached image and the Door is not on the layer in the resulting DWG/DXF file?
If that is the case, that must be a bug.
I have not tried to recently but it worked for me on several occasions in previous versions.

What is you AC version, by the way? Important info. You might want to include it in your signature.