topic Re: DWF is dashed in Modeling

DWF is dashed

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:11:00 GMT

Can anyone explain why plotmaker output to DWF makes all the line work dashed in the model view (as against the sheet)

Re: DWF is dashed

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 01:50:39 GMT

I am having the same problem Maurice
Did you resolve the problem?

Regards

Lyle

Re: DWF is dashed

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 03:33:04 GMT

Maurice wrote:
Can anyone explain why plotmaker output to DWF makes all the line work dashed in the model view (as against the sheet)

Has anybody experienced this phenomena and found a work around?
Lyle

Re: DWF is dashed

Ben Odonnell — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:04:00 GMT

Guys,
ArchiCAD version and platform would help a lot.

Cheers.
Ben

Re: DWF is dashed

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:13:43 GMT

Thanks Ben
Archicad & Plotmaker 9
WinXp Sp2
P4 2.8 1 gig ram radeon 9200 128meg

Re: DWF is dashed

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 02:11:08 GMT

Same specs as Lyle.

No I haven't resolved the problem and it occurs on both versions of archicad/ plotmaker - 8 and 9

Re: DWF is dashed

Ben Odonnell — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:26:01 GMT

Fellas,
I have tried to reproduce your problem, but I can't. I have published out 2 different projects and every thing is fine.

May be a little more detail explanation of how you are publishing them out might help.

Cheers.
Ben

Re: DWF is dashed

__archiben — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:47:27 GMT

also would help to know the name of the linetype that you are having problems with? is it a 'scale sensitive' line? did you make it yourself or is it built in?

i experienced a lot of problems with DWF in archiCAD 8 to the point i gave up using the DWF format entirely. most of those issues persisted in 8.1 as well. but whilst beta testing 9 i made a point of checking it out again and found that most of my problems were no longer evident, and the few bugs i did find with it were fixed (as far as i recall).

~/archiben

Re: DWF is dashed

Djordje — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:16:02 GMT

Of course, posting a screenshot of your settings for DWF publishing would help even more!

Re: DWF is dashed

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 03:49:55 GMT

Djordje wrote:
Of course, posting a screenshot of your settings for DWF publishing would help even more!

Hi Djordge
I am not sure where to find these settings other than those available when you apply the publish command. these settings do not appear to address the problem
Thanks for your reply
regards

Re: DWF is dashed

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 04:16:46 GMT

Here are 2 samples from within Archicad 9. Same effect occurs on Archicad 8.1 and Plotmaker sheets for both versions.

Re: DWF is dashed

Ben Odonnell — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:35:32 GMT

Maurice,
That does look nasty. Could you please post a screen shot of your publisher settings? It would help a lot.
As ben asked, what line types are you using etc etc?

Cheers.
Ben

Re: DWF is dashed

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:40:56 GMT

The autodesk discussion group on this subject states that a programming problem in DWF Viewer produces this phenomena.
I have requested a work around

regards

Re: DWF is dashed

__archiben — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 01:39:04 GMT

Lyle wrote:
The autodesk discussion group on this subject states that a programming problem in DWF Viewer produces this phenomena.

were you using voloview or something else? maybe a web-based viewer/reviewer? (they are notorious!)

~/archiben

Re: DWF is dashed

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 03:34:08 GMT

~/archiben wrote:
Lyle wrote:
The autodesk discussion group on this subject states that a programming problem in DWF Viewer produces this phenomena.
were you using voloview or something else? maybe a web-based viewer/reviewer? (they are notorious!)

~/archiben

We use Autodesk DWF Viewer ver 5.0 Build version 5.1.0.527. As for notorious - yeh they crash regularly when viewing files especially zooms. (Our graphics card drivers are up to date!)

Re: DWF is dashed

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 05:16:35 GMT

Maurice wrote:
~/archiben wrote:
Lyle wrote:
The autodesk discussion group on this subject states that a programming problem in DWF Viewer produces this phenomena.
were you using voloview or something else? maybe a web-based viewer/reviewer? (they are notorious!)

~/archiben
We use Autodesk DWF Viewer ver 5.0 Build version 5.1.0.527. As for notorious - yeh they crash regularly when viewing files especially zooms. (Our graphics card drivers are up to date!)

I also use the same veriion of DXF Viewer. The Autocad discussion group answered thus:
"Re: Lines, again
Eric Haines' reply was to a user who was creating DWF files using his own
process."

Re: DWF is dashed

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:03:26 GMT

Lyle wrote:
Maurice wrote:
~/archiben wrote:
were you using voloview or something else? maybe a web-based viewer/reviewer? (they are notorious!)

~/archiben
We use Autodesk DWF Viewer ver 5.0 Build version 5.1.0.527. As for notorious - yeh they crash regularly when viewing files especially zooms. (Our graphics card drivers are up to date!)
I also use the same veriion of DXF Viewer. The Autocad discussion group answered thus:
"Re: Lines, again
Eric Haines' reply was to a user who was creating DWF files using his own
process."

So Autodesks own viewer is at fault. Which DWF viewer do other people use that works?

Re: DWF is dashed

Ben Odonnell — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 08:17:46 GMT

Maurice,
You can always use ArchiCAD/Plotmakers own DWF viewer. It is a Java based viewer that you use through your web browser.

When publishing to DWF simply choose "Include Web Environment" under your view set publishing properties before you publish your DWFs.

HTH.
Cheers.
Ben

Re: DWF is dashed

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 23:33:16 GMT

Ben wrote:
Maurice,
You can always use ArchiCAD/Plotmakers own DWF viewer. It is a Java based viewer that you use through your web browser.

When publishing to DWF simply choose "Include Web Environment" under your view set publishing properties before you publish your DWFs.

HTH.
Cheers.
Ben

Thanks Ben! much better solution use Archicad viewer and remove bad boy Autodesk product.

Re: DWF is dashed

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:30:56 GMT

Maurice wrote:

Thanks Ben! much better solution use Archicad viewer and remove bad boy Autodesk product.

So interesting that Autodesk issues a direct and aggressive challenge to PDFs and there seem to be so-o-o many problems with DWF. All of the AUGI forums bring up lots of problems with DWF.

By the way, its also interesting to see problems being reported with the Revit/DWG translators. You would think that they would get that one right!

woodster