What I would like to know if it's possible to import simple site plan of a dwg file with same line weight, colours to AC11?? and convert back to dwg again with same line weight & colours again after working on archicad
You should use the
KeepPenIndexNumber (KPIN) translator, both ways. This is the ONLY way of assuring a consistent roundtrip.
And, the below isn't documented anywhere:
Be aware that the pen/color mapping the KPIN translator allows, only works fully if you:
1) Merge the DWG into an empty PLN file,
or if you
2) import it using the Attach XREF command.
If you import using the Open command, Graphisoft's DWG department in its unfathomable wisdom has decided to give you something they think is correct. It might be so, or might not. Some aspects of the translator you've previously set as default will work, but not all, and among them not the pen number mapping. And it will definitely not look the same when you've exported it back to Autocad.
If you import using drag-and-drop or the Place Drawing command (these options give identical results), none of your current translator settings will work. They've decided to use a default translator of their own grace! However, this is a very good fast way of checking the contents of the DWG.
So the KPIN translator is the only one that will give you full control of roundtrip translations. If you also want the imported DWG to look in Archicad as it does in Autocad, you will have to select or customize a pen set that gives you the look you want. Use the Attribute Manager, duplicate a pen set that's close, customize and save.
In our office, we've chosen to standardize on a pen set that mimics the standard Autocad set (pen 1 = red 0.25 mm etc). This minimzes this problem.
AC4.1-AC26SWE; MacOS13.5.1; MP5,1+MBP16,1
