topic Re: Drawing editing in Modeling

Drawing editing

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:49:49 GMT

Hi all,
is there a way to edit (on a line to line basis) an archicad drawing?
Please help.

Re: Drawing editing

Djordje — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:29:45 GMT

zoltar wrote:
Hi all,
is there a way to edit (on a line to line basis) an archicad drawing?
Please help.

Hm? Line to line?

Yes, if it is drawn in lines. If it is walls, and other ArchiCAD stuff, then no.

Re: Drawing editing

Erich — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:39:06 GMT

zoltar,

That really depends on what you want to change. As already said, line by line can't generally be done as you are, or at least should be, dealing with modeling parts not lines.

However, you can change the parameters of the parts, line types, line colors, materials, composite wall assemblies, fill patters, etc. So what do you want?

Re: Drawing editing

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:15:47 GMT

On previous projects I exported the plans, elevations and sections as dwg files to be edited in Autocad. Lines were erased, fills were edited etc. Just wondering if the same could be done with Archicad.

Re: Drawing editing

Thomas Holm — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:19:23 GMT

zoltar wrote:
On previous projects I exported the plans, elevations and sections as dwg files to be edited in Autocad. Lines were erased, fills were edited etc. Just wondering if the same could be done with Archicad.

it doesn't seem to be the most efficient way to work, but to answer your question, if that is really what you want to do, you can export any view to a dwg file, open that, edit, and save as dwg, everything within Archicad.

if you just want to convert 3D items (walls, slabs, objects etc.) to 2D, you can explode them.

But since you lose all intelligence in the parts, this is a route I'd avoid as long as possible.

Re: Drawing editing

Dwight — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:46:45 GMT

And any section or elevation can be a "drawing" instead of a linked model view. Just lines and fills. No exporting required.

Re: Drawing editing

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:04:54 GMT

Thanks Thomas I'll try your method as it seems more straightforward. Dwight do you mean-as Thomas suggested- I explode the 3d elements? What do you mean when you say
"drawing"?

Re: Drawing editing

Dwight — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:09:32 GMT

In the Section tool dialog the Status option can be "Drawing."It produces unlinked lines. Go experiment for yourself.

Re: Drawing editing

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:19:44 GMT

Dwight it works like a miracle! Exactly what I wanted. Thank you for the tip.

Re: Drawing editing

Dwight — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:49:51 GMT

In Canada, guys named Zoltar are usually magicians, so learn some more miraculous things that we can share.

Re: Drawing editing

Thomas Holm — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:30:04 GMT

Dwight wrote:
And any section or elevation can be a "drawing" instead of a linked model view. Just lines and fills. No exporting required.

Dwight's right, of course. But this doesn't work for the floor plan.

And however miraculous, I still fail to see the point in working this way. Sh*tloads of extra unneccessary work for every revision etc. Why? When you have a program that is capable of reducing this workload to just small remnants of what it was in flatcadland, if you just utilize its excellent BIM/virtual building/modeling/view linking capacity? Why?