topic Re: Line type headache PM 2.3 to 3 in Documentation

Line type headache PM 2.3 to 3

Ignacio Azpiazu — Tue, 23 May 2023 01:16:05 GMT

The dashed lines in an ArchiCAD elevation drawing for some reason are coming out as Solid Lines in Plotmaker 3. This is a project that started in ArchiCAD 7 and PM 2.3, and at one point I opened the .lay in the new Plotmaker, each .lay having become a new .lbk.

On the line menu I only get the 'Solid Line'. Copypasting dashed lines into the pmk from other pmk will show them dashed, and make the new line type show on the menu, but after saving and closing the layout agian shows them as solid lines, and when I open the .pmk the lines are back to solid.

How to I get the dashed line back on the Plotmaker line tool, and the dashed lines to remain dashed lines?

Re: Line type headache PM 2.3 to 3

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:00:26 GMT

Ignacio wrote:
The dashed lines in an ArchiCAD elevation drawing for some reason are coming out as Solid Lines in Plotmaker 3. This is a project that started in ArchiCAD 7 and PM 2.3, and at one point I opened the .lay in the new Plotmaker, each .lay having become a new .lbk.

On the line menu I only get the 'Solid Line'. Copypasting dashed lines into the pmk from other pmk will show them dashed, and make the new line type show on the menu, but after saving and closing the layout agian shows them as solid lines, and when I open the .pmk the lines are back to solid.

How to I get the dashed line back on the Plotmaker line tool, and the dashed lines to remain dashed lines?

I discovered this just moving from 8.1R1 to 8.1R2 ... but my drawings were linked to the PLN file. In my case, just updating all drawings had the lines showing as dashed again... but of course the update came from AC 8.1R2. If you're using original pmk's, some other trick must be needed. It seems that perhaps something about linestyles changed in R2. Can you open the old project in 8.1 and re-publish the PMK's?

Karl

Re: Line type headache PM 2.3 to 3

Ignacio Azpiazu — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:13:14 GMT

Karl wrote:
In my case, just updating all drawings had the lines showing as dashed again... but of course the update came from AC 8.1R2. If you're using original pmk's, some other trick must be needed. It seems that perhaps something about linestyles changed in R2. Can you open the old project in 8.1 and re-publish the PMK's?

I am publishing the PMKs straight from 8. Some drawings are showing the dashed lines and some others are not. I am past the deadline and the solution will need to be manual this time (elegantly distributed whiteout).