https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Importing-multiple-Archicad-Objects-into-Single-ACAD-Drawing/m-p/64016#M5997 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><T>Does any one out there know how to import multiple Archicad defined objects into Autocad without running into SECTELEM_## collisions.<BR /> <BR /> [Client is not Archicad literate and all redlining is done through AutodCAD]<BR /> <BR /> Translations from Archicad work as expected but everytime I try to merge two different aspects (for example) elevations into one Autocad drawing, I run into one elevation having defined the block elements by the Archicad translator and systematically naming each element with the following convention SECTELEM_01....SECTELEM_02...SECTELEM_03.... and so on.<BR /> <BR /> When I try to import another archicad translated drawing into the same Autocad drawing it tells me that:<BR /> <BR /> Duplicate definition of block SECTELEM_01 ignored<BR /> Duplicate definition of block SECTELEM_02 ignored<BR /> Duplicate definition of block SECTELEM_03 ignored<BR /> <BR /> which results in a combined drawing that is misssing all the elements of drawing #2 that was already defined in drawing #1.<BR /> <BR /> [See attached pic.]<BR /> <BR /> This is the case in both v9 &amp; v10... A better solution to this naming convention would be to randomize these block/element names so that the changes of collisions would be convention to very small.<BR /> <BR /> (There is a dirty way around this issue by exploding eveything in the second drawing to line elements but this only creates a huge mess if using fill patterns)<BR /> <BR /> I would appreciate any suggestion to get around this collision issue.</T></DIV><BR /><IMG src="http://community.graphisoft.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/74996iADDDF4C4F14B44D9/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" border="0" alt="Collision Example.gif" title="Collision Example.gif" /> Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:21:54 GMT Anonymous 2007-01-10T17:21:54Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Importing-multiple-Archicad-Objects-into-Single-ACAD-Drawing/m-p/64016#M5997 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><T>Does any one out there know how to import multiple Archicad defined objects into Autocad without running into SECTELEM_## collisions.<BR /> <BR /> [Client is not Archicad literate and all redlining is done through AutodCAD]<BR /> <BR /> Translations from Archicad work as expected but everytime I try to merge two different aspects (for example) elevations into one Autocad drawing, I run into one elevation having defined the block elements by the Archicad translator and systematically naming each element with the following convention SECTELEM_01....SECTELEM_02...SECTELEM_03.... and so on.<BR /> <BR /> When I try to import another archicad translated drawing into the same Autocad drawing it tells me that:<BR /> <BR /> Duplicate definition of block SECTELEM_01 ignored<BR /> Duplicate definition of block SECTELEM_02 ignored<BR /> Duplicate definition of block SECTELEM_03 ignored<BR /> <BR /> which results in a combined drawing that is misssing all the elements of drawing #2 that was already defined in drawing #1.<BR /> <BR /> [See attached pic.]<BR /> <BR /> This is the case in both v9 &amp; v10... A better solution to this naming convention would be to randomize these block/element names so that the changes of collisions would be convention to very small.<BR /> <BR /> (There is a dirty way around this issue by exploding eveything in the second drawing to line elements but this only creates a huge mess if using fill patterns)<BR /> <BR /> I would appreciate any suggestion to get around this collision issue.</T></DIV><BR /><IMG src="http://community.graphisoft.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/74996iADDDF4C4F14B44D9/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" border="0" alt="Collision Example.gif" title="Collision Example.gif" /> Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:21:54 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Importing-multiple-Archicad-Objects-into-Single-ACAD-Drawing/m-p/64016#M5997 Anonymous 2007-01-10T17:21:54Z