topic Re: different kinds of attachments to ac in Collaboration with other software

different kinds of DWG attachments to ac

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 16:53:49 GMT

hi

what are the differences between different types of dwg attachments (linking, x-ref, module, external drawing, opening dwg directly by dbl clicking)

thanks,
joseph

Re: different kinds of attachments to ac

Eduardo Rolon — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 17:16:50 GMT

Read here

http://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/guides/archicad-20/collaboration-guide-for-archicad-20/interoperability/sharing_drawings_dwg-dxf/using_dwg-dxf_files_in_archicad/

I always use "Place as Drawing" since you can also turn individual layers off by selecting the drawing and editing its settings. The article is wrong in that regard.

Re: different kinds of attachments to ac

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 17:43:59 GMT

Eduardo,

Could you point me to the part in the article that you think is wrong? (I just don't want to read the whole thing, you could point me faster in the right direction.)
If something is wrong in it, I will let the guys at GS know about it and they will correct it.

Re: different kinds of attachments to ac

Eduardo Rolon — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 17:50:07 GMT

The "No" should have an asterisk, since it can be done but not from the Layers Palette or the description could be changed to "Editable Layers using Layer Command"

Re: different kinds of attachments to ac

Eduardo Rolon — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 17:51:04 GMT

The paragraph that contradicts it.

Re: different kinds of DWG attachments to ac

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 18:37:10 GMT

Thanks, I think this single item remained in there from the times where it was not possible to turn individual layers of the DWG/DXF file ON/OFF.
I will forward this to the GRAPHISOFT documentation gal.

Re: different kinds of attachments to ac

DGSketcher — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 09:46:17 GMT

ejrolon wrote:
I always use "Place as Drawing" since you can also turn individual layers off by selecting the drawing and editing its settings.

Never noticed that option I've learned something new today

Re: different kinds of DWG attachments to ac

Erwin Edel — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 09:57:04 GMT

Yup, place as drawing is great.

A neat trick I use is change the layer of the placed drawing to the layer I want to import certain linework on, then turn off all but those layers in the placed drawing and hit explode. No need to clean up unwanted layers from the DWG. You do get some linetypes and possibly fill types, but at least no layers cluttering up your project.

Re: different kinds of attachments to ac

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 14:47:25 GMT

ejrolon wrote:
Read here

http://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/guides/archicad-20/collaboration-guide-for-archicad-20/interoperability/sharing_drawings_dwg-dxf/using_dwg-dxf_files_in_archicad/

I always use "Place as Drawing" since you can also turn individual layers off by selecting the drawing and editing its settings. The article is wrong in that regard.

The page in question is now corrected by GRAPHISOFT.