topic Re: External Drawing vs Drag n Drop in Modeling

External Drawing vs Drag n Drop

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:28:14 GMT

Does any one have any opinions on how to decided whether you should drag and drop a image into a plan, or place and external drawing? And why, and what is the difference?

And I guess, while we're at it- Can some one explain to me the difference with placing an Xref as well.

Re: External Drawing vs Drag n Drop

Djordje — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:13:07 GMT

Jesikuh123 wrote:
Does any one have any opinions on how to decided whether you should drag and drop a image into a plan, or place and external drawing? And why, and what is the difference?

And I guess, while we're at it- Can some one explain to me the difference with placing an Xref as well.

As soon as we learn which Archicad you use on which computer and which OS

Re: External Drawing vs Drag n Drop

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:39:16 GMT

Ah. OK.

ArchiCAD V.10
Dell PC
Windows XP

Re: External Drawing vs Drag n Drop

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:59:30 GMT

Bump.

Re: External Drawing vs Drag n Drop

Link — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:26:41 GMT

Jesikuh123 wrote:
Does any one have any opinions on how to decided whether you should drag and drop a image into a plan, or place and external drawing? And why, and what is the difference?

And I guess, while we're at it- Can some one explain to me the difference with placing an Xref as well.

Dragging and dropping an image will place the image as a Figure. If you take a look at the Figure Tool dialog you can see what options are available, mostly to do with controlling the size, resolution and format.

Placing as a Drawing on the other hand, gives you much greater control, especially over the future of the image. It will appear in the Drawing Manager - you can set it to manual/auto update. And because the path is remembered, you can re-link it to another image or a newer version of the existing image. You can also crop it, change the colors/B&W, add borders etc.

Inserting as a Drawing has more power, but it does depend on what you need to do.

You can't place images as Xrefs AFAIK. It's an exact copy of AutoCAD's Xref dialog, so only offers DWG/DXF.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: External Drawing vs Drag n Drop

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:48:46 GMT

Thank You Link. That all is about what I thought, but never knew.