topic Re: Plot Maker 9 in Modeling

Plot Maker 9

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:45:50 GMT

Is there an easy way of changing Master Drawing from sheet 3X2 to 17x11

Basically I have made new master with a sheet 17X11 and imported drawing from Master 3x2 and the option strertch is not available

Please Help

Thanks

Re: Plot Maker 9

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:41:46 GMT

dmoraca wrote:
Is there an easy way of changing Master Drawing from sheet 3X2 to 17x11

Basically I have made new master with a sheet 17X11 and imported drawing from Master 3x2 and the option strertch is not available

Have you tried taking it into archicad and resizing? Might work!

Re: Plot Maker 9

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:20:10 GMT

The only reason I can think of for the Stretch command not being available to you if you are trying to do what I think you are trying to do would be if you forgot to suspend groups first.

woodster

Re: Plot Maker 9

Erika Epstein — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 00:30:05 GMT

stretch ctrl/cmd H is available in plotmaker

resize cctrl/cmd K is not available in plotmaker

Re: Plot Maker 9

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:59:57 GMT

to be more specific i took templet from the sheet 3'x2' and inserted into 17"x11" sheet.

see picture.

so now i am trying to fit that into the page.

Thanks

Re: Plot Maker 9

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:25:24 GMT

Erika wrote:
stretch ctrl/cmd H is available in plotmaker

You CAN stretch all the line work here if, as I mentioned earlier, you suspend groups. The Stretch command will NOT be available to you unless you have suspended groups. That being said, you will still have to deal with all the text items separately.

woodster

Re: Plot Maker 9

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:11:05 GMT

Thank you all

Re: Plot Maker 9

Link — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:49:23 GMT

I usually copy & paste into ArchiCAD and resize there. It's a bit of a pain, because curves and text spak out, but it's still the fastest way to resize IME.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Plot Maker 9

Ben Odonnell — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:14:51 GMT

What if you save out a PMK and then edit, copy & paste from the PMK.

Would that work instead of having to go back into ArchiCAD?

Cheers.
Ben

Re: Plot Maker 9

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:15:47 GMT

Hey, Link; nice article in the February issue of "Envisions"

http://www.graphisoft.com/community/envisions/2005_02_link.html

Congratulations!

woodster

Re: Plot Maker 9

Ben Odonnell — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:20:20 GMT

Link,
you really have become the forum celeb

Good work mate.

Cheers.
Benny

Re: Plot Maker 9

Link — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:24:32 GMT

Ben said:

What if you save out a PMK and then edit, copy & paste from the PMK.

Would that work instead of having to go back into ArchiCAD?

You still need to resize it mate - how would you do that using this method?

Woody said:

Hey, Link; nice article in the February issue of "Envisions"

http://www.graphisoft.com/community/envisions/2005_02_link.html

Congratulations!

Thanks Woody. I noticed Erika congratulated me in the Events forum. I must thank her too. Dom & I organized that article when I met him at the ArchiCAD University in the UK last September, so it has been a while now! I really enjoyed it though and personally got a good laugh out of it. Dom's a deft editor let me tell you! Seriously, it was a real pleasure, although I love ArchiCAD and all it has given me, so it was always going to be.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Plot Maker 9

Ben Odonnell — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:00:09 GMT

I was just thinking that you could edit directly in the PMK file.

You would then eliminate the problem with the text stuffing up when you copy and paste.

Cheers.
Ben

Re: Plot Maker 9

Link — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:04:14 GMT

Oh - well in my case I am already editing the elements directly on the Master (which is less of a maintenance issue for the CAD Template users later), and we still can't resize in PM, so I am back to square one.

Unless I am completely missing your point mate, which wouldn't be the first time.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Plot Maker 9

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:28:23 GMT

Link wrote:

Oh - well in my case I am already editing the elements directly on the Master (which is less of a maintenance issue for the CAD Template users later), and we still can't resize in PM, so I am back to square one.

Link wrote:
I usually copy & paste into ArchiCAD and resize there. It's a bit of a pain, because curves and text spak out, but it's still the fastest way to resize IME.

So what am I missing here? Are you editing directly on the Master or are you copying to ArchiCAD and Resizing there?

Unless I'm mistaken (which I have been before on occasion ). If you paste the layout into ArchiCAD and Resize it there, when you repaste it into PlotMaker, the AutoText is no longer AutoText.

I certainly agree that Resize would be a good thing to have in PlotMaker but frankly, considering the number of times one would have to do this if templates were used, I'm not sure I think it would be worth the developers' efforts.

woodster

Re: Plot Maker 9

Link — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:37:44 GMT

Yes I am editing directly on the master, but when I am creating a smaller titleblock for a smaller sheet, I am copying into ArchiCAD, resizing there, and pasting back into PlotMaker.

This does play havoc with text. Autotext is lost - although you can simply enter the code in ArchiCAD and it will paste into PM okay.

It also messes with layers, line thickness, arc/circle resolution and of course pasting/placement is never where you want it to be.

This entire process is surely going to get easier!

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Plot Maker 9

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:40:28 GMT

So I think it's one of those things that just ain't easy

Woody

Re: Plot Maker 9

Ben Odonnell — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:44:41 GMT

Link wrote:
Yes I am editing directly on the master, but when I am creating a smaller titleblock for a smaller sheet, I am copying into ArchiCAD, resizing there, and pasting back into PlotMaker.

This does play havoc with text. Autotext is lost - although you can simply enter the code in ArchiCAD and it will paste into PM okay.

It also messes with layers, line thickness, arc/circle resolution and of course pasting/placement is never where you want it to be.

This entire process is surely going to get easier!

Cheers,
Link.

Sorry mate,
I was a little unclear before, what I mean is after you have fixed every thing in ArchiCAD save it out as a PMK, then you won't have the problem with your text, circles etc.

Then once back in PM you can open your PMK, copy & Paste. You have then solved your text, lines and circles problem.

Cheers.
Ben

Re: Plot Maker 9

Ben Odonnell — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:45:34 GMT

woodster wrote:
So I think it's one of those things that just ain't easy

Woody

That is an understatement.

Cheers.
Ben

Re: Plot Maker 9

Link — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:53:26 GMT

Then once back in PM you can open your PMK, copy & Paste. You have then solved your text, lines and circles problem.

Ben - that's still a great idea. Notch yourself up another beer.

Cheers,
Link.