topic Re: Text import from DWG in Collaboration with other software

Text import from DWG

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:32:13 GMT

Apologies if this has already been asked but I am having some difficulty in importing a dwg file into ArchiCAD without having the text position and line spacing change dramatically, I have attached an image of the drawing file in dwg and one in pln format (in post below) to show the differences, is there a way of altering the import settings so that the pln (Archicad) file looks just like the dwg (AutoCAD) file?

Re: Text import from DWG

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:34:54 GMT

here is the pln (ArchiCad) file

Re: Text import from DWG

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:30:31 GMT

Font conversion can be controlled.
Go to the File\File Special\DXF-DWg Tranlation Setup Dialog's Settings in Selected Translator panel.
Here under the Attributes group, go to the Font-style conversion page.
Here you can define which AutoCAD Style is converted to which font in ArchiCAD upon opening or importing a DWG/DXF file.
What I would try is go to AutoCAD and check what font is used in that Style you are using for your fonts.
Then I would create a conversion rule to convert that Style to this Font in ArchiCAD.
That will hopefully help.

Re: Text import from DWG

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 06:26:54 GMT

Hi. I'm trying to hook up to this old conversation.

Is it possible to use a wildcard, to convert all text styles used in a dwg file to one font in ArchiCAD? My colleagues always send me files with tens of text styles that all need be converted because their original texts are all Chinese encoded and never show up in Archicad unless I convert them to Arial Unicode MS. Would it not be easier, to just enter i.e. "*" and get them all converted?

Please check the attachment for what I mean.

Re: Text import from DWG

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 07:33:03 GMT

Found an answer myself. Maybe this will be useful to someone else, see attachment.