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Saving part plan Q.View for import to plotmaker

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:48:32 GMT

Is there a way of saving a part of a plan as a quick view such that it is the only part of the plan which will import into plotmaker.

eg. we have an array of buildings, and short of setting up layer combinations so that all the other buildings are turned off, we want to import an electrical plan of just one building into plotmaker.

a marqueed quickview would be ideal, but i haven't figured out how to do that,

I know you can specify a zoom in your quickview, but that doesn't correspond to any plotmaker drawing limit.

(typical plotmaker shortfall really!)

any ideas would be great,
cheers!

Re: Saving part plan Q.View for import to plotmaker

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 03:57:25 GMT

Try this in PM Options>Preferences>Miscellaneous tab. It appears to be a global setting, so check your other imported drawings too.

Re: Saving part plan Q.View for import to plotmaker

Link — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:16:05 GMT

Simply save your view with Zooming set to Current Zoom. This has the effect of unchecking 'Fit Frame to Drawing' in the Drawiing Settings, once the drawing is placed in PlotMaker.

Then make sure the checkbox that S2art mentioned is checked.

Whooshka!

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Saving part plan Q.View for import to plotmaker

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:19:51 GMT

This could (read "should") be a setting for each imported view, rather than a global setting, don't you think, Link?

Re: Saving part plan Q.View for import to plotmaker

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:02:55 GMT

I believe this preference only acts on the frame size when the drawing is imported. Once the drawing is on the sheet, you can change the preference and update drawings - the frames will not change.

not extensively tested, so I could be wrong...

wes

Re: Saving part plan Q.View for import to plotmaker

Link — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:20:20 GMT

This could (read "should") be a setting for each imported view, rather than a global setting, don't you think, Link?

Well I'm not so sure mate - I think it should just always be on, without any option. We always have the option to override it in each Drawing's Settings anyway right? Just check/uncheck Fit Frame to Drawing for the drawing you don't want to autofit?

These settings only apply to plans, sections, elevations, details, and 3D non-perspective, non-OpenGL, non-rendered views. So if we select 'None' when we set our view's Zooming options and use a marquee if we really want to limit our 3D non-perspective, non-OpenGL, non-rendered views we should be fine. Right?

Maybe I'm missing something?

Cheers,
Link.