topic Re: Importing DWG details in Collaboration with other software

!Restored: Importing DWG details

Erika Epstein — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 17:28:24 GMT

Hi
I have been playing around with importing dwg details. On the premise of not creating a config file for the occasional detail, I have come up with the following. Each has its pros and cons.

For all I must set scale to 1:1. then resize text. Dimensions I will replace with AC ones so not a problem. I also set display to hairlines. I use edit selection set to change layers and pens.

Perhaps someone has a better way?

1. Copy and paste: easy and have the option to put all directly on ArchiCAD layer so I do not bring in their [nasty] layers. Copy & Paste between 2 open Archicad layers easy on windows where one can easily have multiple copies of AC open. On mac must use BGAC or keep switching files.

2. Merge. Brings in their layers. I use lowercase for my layer names so it is relatively easy to see which ones to delete. Is there a way to merge putting all their layers on one of mine or default ArchiCAD layer?

3. XREF using OVERLAY: I then drag a copy change layers and pens etc. Big problem when unloading as it leaves a text line that references the unattached file. Handy,but does it print? And I can't find a way to get rid of this. It is on the default ArchiCAD layer and is seems to be irrevocably locked. If I accidently overlayed the wrong dwg am I really stuck with this in my file for eternity? I drag acopy as the original will disappear.

4. XREF using ATTACH and DETACH: Again with those nasty layers to get rid of. After draggin a copy and changing layers and pens I am at least not left with the reference line as in 3 above.

My conclusion is that it is easiest to do bring in dwgs in another file, changes pens and colors and then copy and paste or merge that (after deleting their layers) into my main file.

I looked through some of the recent posts on this topic. Does someone have a better solution?

Thank you.

Re: Importing DWG details

Erika Epstein — Sat, 05 Jun 2004 21:25:29 GMT

gif for above post

well it would be ... every time I press "add attachment" the browsed for gif dissappears.
what am I doing wrong?

Re: Importing DWG details

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 00:00:14 GMT

Erika wrote:
gif for above post

well it would be ... every time I press "add attachment" the browsed for gif dissappears.
what am I doing wrong?

Perhaps it's too large. There is a file size limit of 256KB, but more onerous is the image size limit (undocumented as far as I can see) of 500x500 pixels. I have been unable to attach larger images unless they are zipped or converted to PDF.

Re: Importing DWG details

Erika Epstein — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 00:06:37 GMT

Mathew,
It's actually a gif that is 24 KB

Re: Importing DWG details

Erika Epstein — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 00:07:37 GMT

Matthew,
when are they going to change your houses to hotels?

Re: Importing DWG details

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 05:44:20 GMT

Erika wrote:
Matthew,
when are they going to change your houses to hotels?

I think I have to get to 5000 posts for that. 10,000 for Park Place and Boardwalk.

Re: Importing DWG details

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 05:45:22 GMT

Erika wrote:
Mathew,
It's actually a gif that is 24 KB

Is it 500x500 or less pixels?

Re: Importing DWG details

Erika Epstein — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 18:48:31 GMT

Yes, even resizing it to less than 500 x 500 pixels is not working.
I give up.

Re: Importing DWG details

Karl Ottenstein — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 00:28:19 GMT

Matthew wrote:
Perhaps it's too large. There is a file size limit of 256KB, but more onerous is the image size limit (undocumented as far as I can see) of 500x500 pixels. I have been unable to attach larger images unless they are zipped or converted to PDF.

Actually, this is something quite irritating. I'll post to the responsible parties offline.

Until this unannounced change, we were able to post much larger images ... I mean, who cares what the pixel count is, as long as the file size doesn't impact the GS server? Take a look at one of my old posts with large images:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=1140&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=desc&highlight=

Granted, there my original image was TOO large and had to be split up, but the two images posted there are 929 x 682 and 906 x 1066 pixels respectively. The file size for each is barely over 31k - insignificant.

The impact on reading the thread is minimal, because only thumbnails are posted ... you have to click on the image to get a browser window containing the full image.

I cannot recall what the old limit was - something like 1000 x 1300 pixels I think ... but this new limit of 500 x 500 is much too constraining. If you click the attach button after browsing to a file name while composing a message, you do get a warning box at the top of the screen about it exceeding 500 x 500 pixels.

Karl

Re: Importing DWG details

Karl Ottenstein — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 00:38:16 GMT

Here's Erika's image reduced to 500 x 347 pixels. Not too readable, and just not a useful number of pixels to express ourselves. Let's hope that this gets changed this week...

Karl

Re: Importing DWG details

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 09:51:11 GMT

Karl,

I very much agree. The 500x500 limit is ridiculous. It's not even possible to do a decent screen shot of most dialog boxes, let alone an ArchiCAD example. Thanks for following up on this one.

Re: Importing DWG details

Djordje — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 18:50:19 GMT

Karl wrote:
Here's Erika's image reduced to 500 x 347 pixels. Not too readable, and just not a useful number of pixels to express ourselves. Let's hope that this gets changed this week...

In fact unusable.

We all have the screens at at least 1280x1024; if we ran the old 640x480, 500x500 would be too much ... but that is decades ago, right?

Re: Importing DWG details

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 00:03:54 GMT

Very odd. I can post Erika's image now, but I honestly could not do so before without getting an error message.

Back to normal it seems! 🙂

Karl

Re: Importing DWG details

Erika Epstein — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 06:02:36 GMT

Thanks Karl,
It is really a treat to have your help on this.