topic Re: Exporting files in Collaboration with other software

Exporting files

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 23:08:28 GMT

How do you export something from Archicad as a tif but with a high resolutiuon of 300 dpi? Where can you state how high you want the resolution???

Re: Exporting files

Djordje — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:29:38 GMT

Karlie wrote:
How do you export something from Archicad as a tif but with a high resolutiuon of 300 dpi? Where can you state how high you want the resolution???

From where? Plan, 3D window, rendering, Section/Elevation?

Re: Exporting files

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:42:38 GMT

Djordje wrote:
Karlie wrote:
How do you export something from Archicad as a tif but with a high resolutiuon of 300 dpi? Where can you state how high you want the resolution???
From where? Plan, 3D window, rendering, Section/Elevation?

Plan mainly.

Re: Exporting files

tsturm — Thu, 26 Feb 2004 15:34:42 GMT

Karlie

Are you on a Mac or PC?

If on Mac, zoom in to the plan say 200 percent. Then save out the image in the file format you want.

You should notice that the file size is based on what the percentage of zoom you have. So if you are zoomed way out on a site plan to see it all then the graphics will be reduced in resolution. So to get a greater detailed file you need to be zoomed in. The more zoomed in the greater the file size.

HTH.

Re: Exporting files

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:58:03 GMT

....so does anyone know how to get a higher .tiff resolution on a PC from a plan view?

Re: Exporting files

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:43:21 GMT

it seems to work fine on a PC also..

it always helps though if you can work with Photoshop and improve the image (levels, hues, etc..) depending on what you need it for. (web, press, inkjet..)

Re: Exporting files

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:36:52 GMT

Andrew wrote:
....so does anyone know how to get a higher .tiff resolution on a PC from a plan view?

You should told us what do you need image for, but anyway I may suggest exporting 3D/floor plan/section in vector format (PDF, DWG, EPS...) and use it for high resolution illustrations.

Hope it helped.

Regards

Re: Exporting files

Erika Epstein — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:26:52 GMT

I am trying to save a tif at a resolution of 600 dpi. Originally the final output was to be 4" high, but editor may want it to be larger. I can always change the scale in archicad and/or plotmaker to make the original larger, but either way I can not get it with a resolution greater than 72 dpi.

It is a 2D drawing for use as an illustration accompanying an article. I have been zooming in and out of the archicad plan window trying unsuccessfully to save it out at higher than 72 dpi.

I have tried saving it out from plotmaker with equally abysmal results.

I can save a pdf at high resolution, but the printer is requesting it as a tif or eps.

Opening the pdf in PHOtoshop to change it there to a tif or other format adds a gridded backgroung. I am not skilled in Photoshop. does this grid print?

Any help?

Re: Exporting files

Erika Epstein — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 03:59:38 GMT

with none other than Dwight Atkinson's help,
1. I saved from archicad a pdf at the high resolution requested.
2. Opened the pdf in photoshop
3. saved it as a tif with that high resolution