topic Re: Scale of External Drawings in Collaboration with other software

Scale of External Drawings

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:07:44 GMT

I am making several sheets that have external PDF files on them. When I place the PDFs via File>External Content>Place External Drawing they come in fine, but they have an arbitrary "scale" to them like 1:74.6 (just an example). Obviously when this PDF is something like a spreadsheet or something that isn't actually a drawing, it doesn't need this scale. This isn't a problem except when I make a drawing list for our cover sheets which lists all the sheets and the scales of drawings on those sheets. Is there a way to make the scale of an external drawing not show up in the drawing index?

Re: Scale of External Drawings

Eduardo Rolon — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:26:05 GMT

Not that I know off. The quick dirty trick is to draw a white fill over the part of the schedule that you don't want to be shown. The other option is to create 2 drawing lists one without the scale (for PDFs, Perspectives, etc) and one with.

Re: Scale of External Drawings

Link — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 18:09:44 GMT

Does unchecking this help?

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Scale of External Drawings

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 19:09:15 GMT

Link wrote:
Does unchecking this help?

Cheers,
Link.

YES it did! Thanks, that has been driving me crazy

Re: Scale of External Drawings

Link — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 19:13:03 GMT

Great glad it worked. I think it is just new in ArchiCAD 18 if I recall correctly.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Scale of External Drawings

Eduardo Rolon — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 19:19:49 GMT

Link wrote:
Great glad it worked. I think it is just new in ArchiCAD 18 if I recall correctly.

Cheers,
Link.

Learning something new…

Re: Scale of External Drawings

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 20:34:41 GMT

Yay, been asking for that for years.
Bypass Autotext request 2006

Re: Scale of External Drawings

Link — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:01:27 GMT

Gee I should come here more often!

Cheers,
Link.