AC12 prob bringing in DWG for placement in layout book

[Erika Epstein]

I am having trouble in AC12 bringing in a DWG consultant drawing with its titleblock. In the past I have successfully done this by
FILE>FILE SPECIAL>MERGE>select dwg> APPEND PAPERSPACE(S) TO LAYOUT BOOK.

This would add the a new layout with the dwg placed on it ready to print. Now nothing. I've tried several archicad files. The closest I got was once on the APPEND tab when I told it to 'translate autocad blocks as Library parts. In the one instance it created the library folder and the layout with dwg. I cannot reproduce this.

Anyone see what I am doing incorrectly?

thanks,

[Link]

Works okay here.

What exactly is the problem?
Does the layout or the master appear in the layout book?
Does the drawing appear in the layout book?
Do the layers come in?

Cheers,
Link.

[Erika Epstein]

sorry,
It's not creating a new layout.
I can bring in model space ok and place on the layout, but it is not creating the a new layout nor placing the dwg on it.

[Link]

I thought it may have something to do with the default drawing layer being locked, but it seems to put the drawing on the ArchiCAD Layer, regardless.

Maybe it has the do with the DWG itself. Do you know what version of AutoCAD it is?

In Windows, if you right click on the DWG in Windows Explorer and Select Open With... and choose Notepad or a similar word processer, the first bit of code will identify it as something like AC1009 or AC1014, etc.

I doubt it will work with older versions of AutoCAD. Eg AC1009.
If you still can't get it to work, you could upload it or email it to me, and I will try it.

Cheers,
Link.

[Erika Epstein]

Hi Link,
I opened one in Notepad and it gave:AC1021. I'm not clear how to relate that to a version of autocad.
But, right-clicking on the DWG it gave me the orginal creation date as 2004.
PROPERTIES>STATISTICS> Thursday, October 28, 2004 7:05.11 AM

I checked that the translators I was using included 2004. Just did a new one in case. That it had created a new layout with DWG once I would have thought meant the translator was ok.
I have systematically gone through all the translators. It is not even trying to create one.

What else about these DWGs might I check?

[Link]

According to this page, it looks like AC1021 is AutoCAD 2007/2008.

Not sure what else to check, unless you want me to check that exact file for you?

Cheers,
Link.