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DWG Translators - Adding prefixes to layer names

Aaron Bourgoin — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 23:52:53 GMT

I am routinely saving DWG of layouts. ArchiCAD translators have begun adding the name of the sheet to the layer names.

I can find no way to disable this and I do not recall this happening in the past.

Can someone shed some light or let me know that it's always done this and I wasn't paying attention.

Thanks.

Re: DWG Translators - Adding prefixes to layer names

DGSketcher — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:43:49 GMT

New one to me. Are you using the latest GS translator which may have options setup that weren't used in previous versions. Sometimes the templates get modified to how someone thinks would be better.

Re: DWG Translators - Adding prefixes to layer names

Aaron Bourgoin — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 14:35:19 GMT

I do think that's what's happened.

A new feature that went undocumented, and, or, a bug in a new feature that doesn't allow the user to make the settings for layers as intended.

Re: DWG Translators - Adding prefixes to layer names

DGSketcher — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:30:20 GMT

It isn't a new feature, but you should be able to click on the DXF/DWG Layer name and change it to what suits your required working layers?

Re: DWG Translators - Adding prefixes to layer names

Aaron Bourgoin — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:00:46 GMT

this was the pane I should have included: I cannot edit the "<ACLayerName>" and I would guess that the associated prefix for sheet name would appear in this line as well.

Re: DWG Translators - Adding prefixes to layer names

GOBA — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 11:45:03 GMT

Hello,

I am not sure if this answers your question, but in order to map the ArchiCAD layer and DWG layer, you need to have a DWG template, with all the layers, so you can select them, after clicking “New” in "Layer name conversion":

Regards,

GOBA

Re: DWG Translators - Adding prefixes to layer names

Aaron Bourgoin — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:15:36 GMT

Hey GOBA, I'll check k that out.

BUT,

I didn't have to do this before. I've been using a template file to hand font styles, and nothing more.

Re: DWG Translators - Adding prefixes to layer names

GOBA — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:36:00 GMT

Hi, I don’t really know if it’s new, or if there is another way, because I've just started to use ArchiCAD