Exchange to DWG autocad

[Anonymous]

Hello Everyone,
I really have a serious problem now, i work with AC 9 B2045 and i have a big problem publishing my plotmaker book to DWG so i can send it to the contractor, here are my problems:
1. They can not add any pen assignment to the layout or add any style in the autocad. I tried to make conversion table for the pen colors but nothing work.
2.all the back ground fill that it's white in AC goes to autocad as a color fill and turns to black when the plot.
3. If they delete these background fill, so the other fill for anything like floor pattern appears and doesn't trim. So at the end a bad result.
4.The arabic font on zones, turns to ?????
5. all the Western fonts turn to something else.
Anyway if someone has any clue please help me.
Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Hello Guys,
Does Anybody Has a Clue for my Problems?

[Anonymous]

gobel wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I really have a serious problem now, i work with AC 9 B2045 and i have a big problem publishing my plotmaker book to DWG so i can send it to the contractor, here are my problems:
1. They can not add any pen assignment to the layout or add any style in the autocad. I tried to make conversion table for the pen colors but nothing work.

They should be able to edit the layout in paper space. I haven't had occasion to check this myself though, I rarely send DWGs on titleblock.

2.all the back ground fill that it's white in AC goes to autocad as a color fill and turns to black when the plot.

In ArchiCAD you can set the Display Options to show background fills as all transparent. This will suppress the backgrounds in the DWGs. I assume the same is true for PlotMaker.

3. If they delete these background fill, so the other fill for anything like floor pattern appears and doesn't trim. So at the end a bad result.

There is an option in the DWG translator to export fill backgrounds as separate solid fills. This may allow them to be more easily deleted/hidden. As far as not trimming... I don't know why they would be inoperable in AutoCAD. How well does your contractor know AutoCAD? (No offense intended, I have known competent engineers who know only as much AutoCAD as they need, and have trouble with anything out of the ordinary.)

4.The arabic font on zones, turns to ?????

I don't understand what you mean by "?????".

5. all the Western fonts turn to something else.

Font mapping in the translator should be able to take care of this for you.

[Anonymous]

Here are some observation from my experience and a couple of workaround methods.

Firs of all this is quite trough that you can not assign any Pen Style to ArchiCAD exported DWGs which I find a major drawback.

But...workaround is to create aat file in Attribute Manager to match AutoCAD Plot/Pen Style and apply it before DWG export.

Matthew's advice on fonts conversion is useful but I noticed that it isn't 100% effective as you would still get random line spacing when exported to AutoCAD. In my opinion it has to do with hyphenation. Further more labels are not always properly exported in terms of text relations to lines and arrows.

Sometimes I find it far more useful to explode drawing before I export it through DWG. This way I loose some formatting options in AutoCAD but gain better visual compliance.

Any comments?

Regards