topic Re: PlotMaker--->Publisher--->DWG--->Archicad-- in Collaboration with other software

PlotMaker--->Publisher--->DWG--->Archicad---->??

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:24:17 GMT

I have published a drawing from PlotMaker on a .DWG file format.
I have tried to open this file within Archicad for a final check and mark-up notes but there were no lines visible whatsoever.The drawing vanished...
What am I doing wrong?

Jaime Neto
PowerBook G4, 1,5 Ghz, 1Gb DDR SRam, MacOSX 10.3.9
Archicad 9/ PlotMaker 9

Re: PlotMaker--->Publisher--->DWG--->Archicad----&a

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:01:30 GMT

Maybe you saved from PlotMaker into Paperspace in the DWG file, but when you opened it in ArchiCAD you set the translator to import the modelspace. Just guessing.

Re: PlotMaker--->Publisher--->DWG--->Archicad----&a

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:15:29 GMT

You can try to open it with edrawings free dwg viewer for mac downloadable here.

Re: PlotMaker--->Publisher--->DWG--->Archicad----&a

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:30:49 GMT

try using model space in the translator

Re: PlotMaker--->Publisher--->DWG--->Archicad--

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:09:34 GMT

syber wrote:
try using model space in the translator

After a certain amount of trial and error experiences, I understand now that if you want to check a published Plotmaker DWG drawing within Archicad, you have to do the following:
1. Publish the DWG drawing from Plotmaker using the option "model space with cropped drawing's content";
2. Opening on Archicad using the default translator.

Thank you all for your insights.

Jaime Neto
Archicad 9.0 / MacOSX, Powerbook G4