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Problems with publishing DWF

Anonymous — Thu, 25 May 2023 22:15:34 GMT

I am attempting to publish DWF from AC and tried a zillion different ways but it does not work.
The first image shows the plan how it shoudl look at the second image shows what the published DWF file looks like.
Everything is squashed into one long line. Could somebody please help.
Thanks.

Re: Problems with publishing DWF

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:54:59 GMT

Second Image

Re: Problems with publishing DWF

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:26:55 GMT

I tried recreating your problem but could not; published a DWF from ArchiCAD Orchard Project example; opened it with Autodesk's DWF viewer... everything came through fine. Even tried all 3 DWF options.

1. Chose File/Publisher/Publish...
2. Create a view set
3. Set the View Set Publishing Properties to "Save" and tell the program where.
4. Make sure the files are set to save as DWFs
5. Push the Publish Button

Woody

Re: Problems with publishing DWF

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:41:34 GMT

I opened a different project that i work on and it worked out fine.
I had done it before and it worked fine.

I have tried to merge it into a new file and it gave me the same problem.
I dont know what to do since this project is going on site in 2 weeks and i need a file that is not corrupted. Any suggestions?
It publishes as pdf and dwg without problems......

Re: Problems with publishing DWF

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:07:19 GMT

THis is driving me mad!!
I opened the Orchad example file it works fine.
I dont understand it.

I have started a new reset file and merged the project and i get the same problem. everything is shown in one long line....

Re: Problems with publishing DWF

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:13:01 GMT

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Re: Problems with publishing DWF

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:41:43 GMT

Another thing:

This project originated in AC8.1

I have opened 5 previous independent versions of this drawing (superseded) and they are all the same. When publishing to dwf it just drops everything into one central line on the page.

Any other drawing i open i do not get this problem.
It must be a problem with the *.pln file or the preferences relating to it.
Would it be possible to email the file to somebody for troubleshooting?

Re: Problems with publishing DWF

Djordje — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 03:23:54 GMT

patricprz wrote:
I have opened 5 previous independent versions of this drawing (superseded) and they are all the same. When publishing to dwf it just drops everything into one central line on the page.

You might want to send it to your tech support?

In the meantime - merge it into your template, or a New and reset file.

Re: Problems with publishing DWF

Anonymous — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:33:50 GMT

I have merged the file into a new and reset file. No success.
I will email tech supoport in the UK and check with them.

Re: Problems with publishing DWF

Djordje — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:25:48 GMT

patricprz wrote:
I have merged the file into a new and reset file. No success. I will email tech supoport in the UK and check with them.

Did you try merging the new and reset file into your problematc file?

Re: Problems with publishing DWF

Anonymous — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 20:02:19 GMT

I tried that as well, same problem.
I give up.

Re: Problems with publishing DWF

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:05:37 GMT

Patric,

I looked at your file. Here's what I think the problem is and I'm posting it here rather than in private email because maybe someone will remember under what topic something similar to this came up (probably last summer) or have had a similar experience.

I think the main factor in the problem is related to the distance of the drawing from the Absolute Origin being 555 million mm. Prior to 9.0 this could cause problems in a variety of ways.

Second, fonts were set to a fixed size (you are using mm vs points) and I think that this was also causing a problem because after I moved everything closer to the origin the only problem with the drawing seemed to be that the DWF looked just like it would if you printed a drawing at a scale less than the plan scale (text is all lumped up in the center of the drawing).

Here's what I would try... just to satisfy my curiosity; open the original 8.0 project in 8.0 and go to the ground floor. Turn all layers on, set the coordinates (X,Y) to absolute and draw a heavy marque around the entire drawing.

Drag everything to Absolute 0,0 and save with a new name. Open the resulting file in 9.0 and see what happens when you create a DWF.

Woody

Re: Problems with publishing DWF

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:28:46 GMT

I will instruct my collegue who worked on the the 8 file to do that. He works in another office and the file that was drawn in version 8 has been superseded for 4 month. I will ask him do that anyways just to check if that was what was causing the problem.
You mentioned the text being a problem. After installing AC9 started using text in mm by default. So are you saying that i should be using the text tool always with points?

Re: Problems with publishing DWF

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:45:20 GMT

At least the problem is creative. When I started out the DWF would arrange everything in a line in the centre of the page. Now that I have moved everthing to the 0,0 origin everything is arranged in the lower left corner in a circle. (see pic)
By the way, how do i select Text in the entire drawing not just on one floor?

Re: Problems with publishing DWF

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:33:54 GMT

patricprz wrote:
You mentioned the text being a problem. After installing AC9 started using text in mm by default. So are you saying that i should be using the text tool always with points?

I like setting the text in points because 12 point text is 12 points whether the scale is 1/4" = 1'0" or 1 1/2" = 1'0". I like to set line weights by points as well for the same reason (I would really like to hear what others have to say about this).

patricprz wrote:
At least the problem is creative. When I started out the DWF would arrange everything in a line in the centre of the page. Now that I have moved everthing to the 0,0 origin everything is arranged in the lower left corner in a circle. (see pic)

That is exactly what I got (the pic)

patricprz wrote:
By the way, how do i select Text in the entire drawing not just on one floor?

Activate the text tool; Control+A (CMD+A on Mac)... but you have to do it for each floor.

Woody

Re: Problems with publishing DWF

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:35:14 GMT

Ok, check this out. I have been trying EVERYTHING and I discovered something.
If i draw a slab around (thin red line in the pic) the DWF published correctly.
I still don't know what is causing the problem.

Re: Problems with publishing DWF

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:39:28 GMT

patricprz wrote:
Ok, check this out. I have been trying EVERYTHING and I discovered something.
If i draw a slab around (thin red line in the pic) the DWF published correctly.
I still don't know what is causing the problem.

UNBELIEVABLE !!!!! Are you sure there's nothing else you changed? I'm going to have to let that rumble around in my head for a while.

Woody

Re: Problems with publishing DWF

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:46:16 GMT

Oh and i checked how big the slab has to be.
It only starts working once the slab is larger than ~218000 x 218000 mm.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

I will follow your advice on points versus mm.
Thank you!

Re: Problems with publishing DWF

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:24:46 GMT

Actually, ingnore my statement about the points vs mm related to the Fixed Size text. Something is happening in the translation from ArchiCAD to DWF that would indicate a problem associated with these settings but other things about it don't make sense.

The problem may go back to the original 8.0 file and if so, given that you've done considerable work on it since converting to 9.0 the slab solution (which I could not replicate) may be your only choice.

Woody

Re: Problems with publishing DWF

Djordje — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:06:24 GMT

patricprz wrote:
You mentioned the text being a problem. After installing AC9 started using text in mm by default. So are you saying that i should be using the text tool always with points?

Units don't matter. What does matter is whether the text is scale sensitive or not. If you use fixed text, you are working like in AutoCAD - specifying the text size in project units, instead of the printed size which was ArchiCAD's default until 9. IMHO it should have stayed so.

I work in metric, and points for text size have no meaning for me in a technical document.