topic Re: PM9 Translator in Collaboration with other software

PM9 Translator

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:34:58 GMT

I have tried every option to translate a file from PM to Autocad and all of them create a .dwg in decimal. How can I do that but translate to imperial?

Re: PM9 Translator

Djordje — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 03:59:20 GMT

YA.H.VE wrote:
I have tried every option to translate a file from PM to Autocad and all of them create a .dwg in decimal. How can I do that but translate to imperial?

Did you do it in metric?

Re: PM9 Translator

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:26:33 GMT

No, I made it in Imperial. Do I have to set PM units to Imperial or PM take the units AC had?

Re: PM9 Translator

Thomas Holm — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:04:38 GMT

Since you are God, why don't you just say Be.... ?

In the DWG translator (in PM) you set what the DWG unit should correspond to when uyou save the DWG file. You'll have to tell the Autocad user to set his DWGunit to the same when opening the file. DWG doesn't store "real" measurements, to my knowledge.

Re: PM9 Translator

Thomas Holm — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:11:27 GMT

Oh and I just now remembered - in recent Autocads there is also a parameter called INSUNITS which has to be correct. Archicad9 and PM9 doesn't handle this correctly - it's a confirmed, old, but never fixed bug. You cannot set it in AC/PM. Your Autocad partner will have to check that one too.

Re: PM9 Translator

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:41:55 GMT

For a few drawings this could be fine, but for more than 30 its a real pain! What about AC 10? Is that steel happened? Or as you said, is something in Autocad not Archicad issue?

Re: PM9 Translator

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:07:04 GMT

I think most AutoCAD users know that once they open any file and the measurements are in decimal inches, they just go to Format/Unit and change it from Decimal to Architectural.
in the past however I used to go into each DWG file after saving it to do this change to be on the safe side.
I do view this as an AutoCAD problem and AC doesn't have to accommodate all of it's limitations.

Re: PM9 Translator

Thomas Holm — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:21:13 GMT

YA.H.VE wrote:
For a few drawings this could be fine, but for more than 30 its a real pain! What about AC 10? Is that steel happened? Or as you said, is something in Autocad not Archicad issue?

I think I've heard that GS has fixed the INSUNITS bug in AC10, but I really haven't tested it enough to be sure. Nonetheless, I haven't heard about any issues with my AC10-exported dwgs yet, but that may depend on the recieving end...

You should take care though, if you depend on some special pen-to-color mapping - there is supposed to be a problem in AC10/817 with that. The PenIndex translation is gone in AC10, instead you have to create a translation table (there is one delivered that delivers this function). I haven't had any problems yet, though, but that may be because I use (out of pure laziness) the standard Autocad pen set myself.

Re: PM9 Translator

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:20:34 GMT

Thank you very much guys. I really appreciate your recommendations.

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