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Do Not Export ArchiCad Lineweights

Andy Thomson
Advisor
Under no circumstance or setting that I have tried, can I get this radio button to become ungreyed such that I can select it (except with an ancient translator, but I cannot reproduce the settings in AC11). I do not want to export ArchiCad lineweights.

Also, related - we have set up a DWG template for ArchiCad to correctly map pens to bylayer pen colours also - but this causes hard crashing of archicad 11 when using the publisher - every time. Anyone else experiencing this?

Lastly, cropped TB images/PDFs still export uncropped and with a border turned on - grrr.

Has anyone been able to turn OFF export Archicad lineweights? I am publishing layouts to DWG, with exported modelspace (cropped) as a single DWG...

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Andy Thomson, M.Arch, OAA, MRAIC
Director
Thomson Architecture, Inc.
Instructor/Lecturer, Toronto Metropolitan University Faculty of Engineering & Architectural Science
AC26/iMacPro/MPB Silicon M2Pro
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Andy Thomson
Advisor
92 views and no responses? Helloooooo!? Anyone out there that knows something please?? 😉
Andy Thomson, M.Arch, OAA, MRAIC
Director
Thomson Architecture, Inc.
Instructor/Lecturer, Toronto Metropolitan University Faculty of Engineering & Architectural Science
AC26/iMacPro/MPB Silicon M2Pro
Petros Ioannou
Contributor
Have you tried to disable the True line weight option -under the View menu- before exporting?

Petros
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TomWaltz
Participant
Petros wrote:
Have you tried to disable the True line weight option -under the View menu- before exporting?
That's my guess, too.
Tom Waltz
Andy Thomson
Advisor
Duh. You are right of course - I guess I had assumed that they had finally shuffled the old display option (that was actually an output option) from the MVO to the DOO (Display Only Options) because that was what it was supposed to be - SCREEN ONLY!!

So, by turning off the True Lineweight DOO! Doh! (alt+6) - DWG export option for Do Not Export ArchiCad Lineweights becomes ungreyed and selectable.

Whose idea was that? Should not that radio-button action trigger the display option off! Argghh! This program.
Andy Thomson, M.Arch, OAA, MRAIC
Director
Thomson Architecture, Inc.
Instructor/Lecturer, Toronto Metropolitan University Faculty of Engineering & Architectural Science
AC26/iMacPro/MPB Silicon M2Pro
__archiben
Booster
andyro wrote:
Should not that radio-button action trigger the display option off! Argghh! This program.
you'd have thought so wouldn't you . . .
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TomWaltz
Participant
~/archiben wrote:
andyro wrote:
Should not that radio-button action trigger the display option off! Argghh! This program.
you'd have thought so wouldn't you . . .
You want it functional AND logical? Geez, you'd think you paid a lot for this software or something.
Tom Waltz
Anonymous
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wow

i have tried changing the DOO to not show true lineweight and i still can't seem to access the elusive check box in the translator

any step by step instructions would be greatly appreciated

huge thanks in advance

yukioMishima
Anonymous
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wow

i have tried changing the DOO to not show true lineweight and i still can't seem to access the elusive check box in the translator

any step by step instructions would be greatly appreciated

huge thanks in advance

yukioMishima

This happened to me althought only once.
The only way I could solve it was to open a new file and import the whole project. Make sure you can tick/untick the import archicad lineweights check box in the translator before importing the file.