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How do you create room layouts in large projects?

Mats_Knutsson — Fri, 26 May 2023 00:22:37 GMT

Hi,

Reaching out because I'm stuck.

I want to create "Room layouts". A room layout is per room and consists of IE-elevations, a plan view of the room. The layout name has to be the same as the room number. How do you create these layouts in larger projects? I have 350 of them to create...right now I'm publishing the IE groups as .pmk and mount them one by one on every layout (since I can't place more than one .pmk at a time on a layout). Keeping the room layout in the main file is not possible because it's bogging down the file.

See nicely handmade draft...
Best regards,
Mats

Re: How do you create room layouts in large projects?

Christophe Fortineau — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 20:49:36 GMT

Hello,

Would your object be to automate this process (cuts, plans and layout) ?

Re: How do you create room layouts in large projects?

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 22:26:41 GMT

HI,

Have you tried hotlink modules?

Cheers

Re: How do you create room layouts in large projects?

Mats_Knutsson — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 06:21:55 GMT

Christophe wrote:
Hello,

Would your object be to automate this process (cuts, plans and layout) ?

Yes as much as possible.

Re: How do you create room layouts in large projects?

Mats_Knutsson — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 06:23:00 GMT

tranthainguyen wrote:
HI,

Have you tried hotlink modules?

Cheers

Tha majority of the rooms in the master file comes from hotlinks. I'm after the layout creation.

Re: How do you create room layouts in large projects?

Barry Kelly — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 07:02:41 GMT

If you have to (or want to) publish as PMK files as you are now doing, then I don't think you have any choice except to add them all one by one.

However you can just drag the IE view group to the layout page and all elevations will be added at once.
I think you can adjust the layout grid spacing to get them to align how you want them.
This can also be done in a separate layout book (separate file).
With the 2 files open in separate Archicads, open the Organiser in the layout file.
Browse for the project file and simply drag the views across onto the layout page.
You may have to select them and then 'Update'.
Or you can choose to 'Place External Drawing' and then browse for the model file and the views you want (this can even be done with the model file closed).

The plan you will have to add in the same way - unfortunately it is not part of the elevation group.

Barry.

Re: How do you create room layouts in large projects?

Erwin Edel — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 07:37:47 GMT

Copying the layout and re-linking the views (and moving them if needed) is the only thing that will slightly speed this up.

I assume it's 350 unique rooms, or I would've set up some sort of sub ID system with room type A, B etc and considerably shorten the amount of drawings needed.

I've never had to do something like this with rooms, but we do have it with building types a lot and for this reason we make sure to have seperate building type PLN with everything set up the same in terms of project origin, this makes re-linking layouts a lot quicker, since there is no need to move the placed drawing after re-linking.

You could maybe make publish PLN files where you place the room MOD files and setup the interior elevation. If you put, for example, the bottom left corner on origin in all these files and then publish PMK, if you re-link each layout, the drawings shouldn't jump around. It's probably less work to move the MOD files to origin in a seperate PLN. If you keep them as linked drawings, instead of PMK, if the MOD updates, the layout should automatically update as well.

Just throwing some ideas out.

Re: How do you create room layouts in large projects?

Mats_Knutsson — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 19:00:03 GMT

We've hade problems with copying before...it was several years ago but the drawing update got wrong and I really haven't taken the method to my heart.
I've prepared a master with a grid (which works sometimes and sometimes not).