topic Re: Conflict with Archicad & Plotmaker Viewsets in Documentation

Conflict with Archicad & Plotmaker Viewsets

Anonymous — Fri, 26 May 2023 00:37:34 GMT

I'm having a problem that I didn't have before (when I started using AC/PM 9.0). I've only noticed this problem recently so I'm wondering if there's any bugs in Plotmaker. I'm not able to update a view in Plotmaker anymore.

In Archicad, I had a layer hidden before but now I just turned it on. I saved it in my Viewset and when double-clicking I had no problem viewing it. However, in Plotmaker, the view that I had saved (with that same layer hidden) did not change to the new view when I updated the plans. I tried unlinking and relinking the drawing but it still shows the old view. Only when I deleted the drawing, reimported it into the layout THEN it shows the new view.

Thanks!

Re: Conflict with Archicad & Plotmaker Viewsets

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:21:06 GMT

Did you update the layer combination as well or only redefine the viewset? Plotmaker probably was using the old layer combination.

Re: Conflict with Archicad & Plotmaker Viewsets

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:32:25 GMT

I only redefined the viewset. But it worked fine like that before.

Re: Conflict with Archicad & Plotmaker Viewsets

Barry Kelly — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:29:04 GMT

In Plotmaker go to PREFERENCES menu > DRAWING ATTRIBUTES and untick the LAYER box.

If this is ticked then the plotmaker view will remain as it was when you first imported it and you are unable to change layers in it yourself.

Turn it off and you should be able to change layers to your hearts content (it will have the same layers and combinations as in Archicad).

Or as you mentioned delete the view and re-import it.

Barry.

Re: Conflict with Archicad & Plotmaker Viewsets

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 16:21:42 GMT

Thanks, guys, for the info. But now that I tried updating again, everthing was updated regardless of whether or not the "layer" box was checked. Weird.

Re: Conflict with Archicad & Plotmaker Viewsets

Anonymous — Wed, 11 May 2005 16:48:32 GMT

Hi all,

We have been having the same problem.

In ArchiCAD:
Redefine View, Save.

In PlotMaker:
Make sure that the drawing overwrites the layers box is checked. Drawing isn't updated.

But...today...I have restarted my machine. Opened ArchiCAD and PlotMaker back up and guess what..it works.

I would be willing to file this under "it happened once now let's move on" except it has happened three times to three different people. In all three cases we followed the steps above and in all three cases the problem went away with a restart.

Is this right? Is this the workaround?

Thanks,
Chris

P.S. The other "workaround" - delete the drawing and reimport it - is not an option.

Re: Conflict with Archicad & Plotmaker Viewsets

David Tauer — Fri, 13 May 2005 14:00:51 GMT

Please check if this has to do anything with the problem depicted here.

http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/archiguide/LBKupdate.html

Thanks & Regards,
Dave

Re: Conflict with Archicad & Plotmaker Viewsets

Anonymous — Fri, 13 May 2005 16:03:59 GMT

Hi Dave,

That seems to have done it.

Thanks,
Chris