topic Re: Hatch boundaries in Documentation

Hatch boundaries

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 14:59:00 GMT

Hi
Why the dashed borders of my hatches are well done in Archicad (right)and -grumble grumble – like that in Plotmaker (left)?

Re: Hatch boundaries

Erika Epstein — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 00:25:14 GMT

1. Is your output scale in plotmaker the same as in archicad?

2. Is the linetype used scale-dependent or scale-independent?

Re: Hatch boundaries

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:03:59 GMT

Erika wrote:
1. Is your output scale in plotmaker the same as in archicad?

2. Is the linetype used scale-dependent or scale-independent?

Hi Erika
Was very busy out of AC theses days
1. yes and both 1:1
2. scale-independent
Thanks
Best regards

Re: Hatch boundaries

Erika Epstein — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:34:43 GMT

plotmaker is changing your rounded outline corners to separate arcs (circles) separate lines from the straight sides. Although the arcs are still using the dashed linetype, they now stop and start at the ends of the arcs which are not long enough to show the dash.

I reproduced this.
Has anyone reported this bug yet?

Re: Hatch boundaries

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:01:54 GMT

Well, after 10 days, I did not see much concern about that from the AC gurus…
I do not think Plotmk did transform anything, I tried to break the link and opened the pmk file, it is still a hatch with dashed boundaries, not some kind of transformation into lines and circles around the hatch.
Same object as AC but an incorrect representation.

Anybody to explain, please?
Thanks
Best regards

Re: Hatch boundaries

Erika Epstein — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:28:26 GMT

Phil
In plotmaker the arced lines are now solid instead of dashed when exploded.
Plotmaker is transforming them incorrectly.

Re: Hatch boundaries

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:44:38 GMT

If you explode my hatch, yes, I did not. Anyway, as I see, AC is able to make a correct link between straight and curved frame (previously called boundaries in my approximate English), so why does PM not?

Thanks
Best regards

Re: Hatch boundaries

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:54:18 GMT

Finally, I drew the hatch directly in Plotmaker and apply a fillet (the way I did in AC).
Unable to get any dashed curve even with a big fillet.
I call that a bug, where am I suppose to report it?
Thanks
Best regards

Re: Hatch boundaries

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:09:13 GMT

Philippe wrote:
Finally, I drew the hatch directly in Plotmaker and apply a fillet (the way I did in AC).
Unable to get any dashed curve even with a big fillet.
I call that a bug, where am I suppose to report it?
Thanks
Best regards

Contact your local dealer/reseller with the problem.

Re: Hatch boundaries

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 07:17:14 GMT

Why not?
Shouldn't change that much for me…
Do they suppose to collect bugs?
I thought this forum was the right place to get answer to problems.

Re: Hatch boundaries

__archiben — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:10:58 GMT

Philippe wrote:
Do they suppose to collect bugs?
I thought this forum was the right place to get answer to problems.

yes - they collect the bugs and channel it officially back to graphisoft for fixing. that's not to say graphisoft don't respond here because they often do: but to be assured of a bug getting back to HQ report it to your dealer/reseller . . .

~/archiben

Re: Hatch boundaries

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:20:05 GMT

Philippe wrote:
Why not?
Shouldn't change that much for me…
Do they suppose to collect bugs?
I thought this forum was the right place to get answer to problems.

Yes, people on this forum can answer problems and can offer solutions.
But if you found a bug, it should be fixed, and the standard line to let Graphisoft know about it is to send bug report to your local reseller, who will make sure it gets to Graphisoft and gets fixed.

Re: Hatch boundaries

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 06:01:11 GMT

laszlonagy wrote:
Yes, people on this forum can answer problems and can offer solutions.
But if you found a bug, it should be fixed, and the standard line to let Graphisoft know about it is to send bug report to your local reseller, who will make sure it gets to Graphisoft and gets fixed.

Ok ok I did it. But I saw so many people around here announcing bugs and be blamed to be just Re*it advocates (you notice I avoid the randomizers to jump on that ), I feel myself like most of the common Ac users unable to determine if it's a bug or not.
I am not a big user of forum but so far, I saw veterans checking most of the messages. So what silence signifies?
• "you found a bug , report it and stop irritate me"
or
• "you are incompetent, do your homework"

Re: Hatch boundaries

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 21:17:30 GMT

Philippe wrote:
laszlonagy wrote:
Yes, people on this forum can answer problems and can offer solutions.
But if you found a bug, it should be fixed, and the standard line to let Graphisoft know about it is to send bug report to your local reseller, who will make sure it gets to Graphisoft and gets fixed.
Ok ok I did it. But I saw so many people around here announcing bugs and be blamed to be just Re*it advocates (you notice I avoid the randomizers to jump on that ), I feel myself like most of the common Ac users unable to determine if it's a bug or not.

This is one of the great values of this forum. If you find yourself unable to do something you can probably get an answer or a workaround, or, if it truly is a bug, it will become apparent and can be confidently reported.

I am not a big user of forum but so far, I saw veterans checking most of the messages. So what silence signifies?
• "you found a bug , report it and stop irritate me"
or
• "you are incompetent, do your homework"

Silence usually means:

"I haven't a clue, maybe someone else can figure it out."

or

"I don't understand the question."

or perhaps just,

"I'm under deadline and don't have the time just now."