Placing an Excel File in plotmaker?

[Anonymous]

Is there no longer a way to place you Excel spread sheets into plotmaker? I cant seem to do this like in 9? if not is there any other easy way other that printing and scanning the doc, any way to keep the file live?

[Anonymous]

I create a .pdf of the excel file and then place it using the drawing tool. The downside is that I have to 're-publish' the .pdf every time I make a change to the excel file - but hey, that's a lot easier than re-scanning it, right?

[Laszlo Nagy]

b.trenga wrote:
Is there no longer a way to place you Excel spread sheets into plotmaker? I cant seem to do this like in 9? if not is there any other easy way other that printing and scanning the doc, any way to keep the file live?

This functionality was discontinued with ArchiCAD 10. The integration of PlotMaker into ArchiCAD may have something to do.

[Anonymous]

Dom wrote:
I create a .pdf of the excel file and then place it using the drawing tool. The downside is that I have to 're-publish' the .pdf every time I make a change to the excel file - but hey, that's a lot easier than re-scanning it, right?

Another downside that I've just discovered is that when I publish a drawing with a linked PDF from Excel file, it publishes upside down! Very very unusual....
Any one else get this? or have an idea as to why it happens/how to fix?

[Anonymous]

Tom wrote:
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Another downside that I've just discovered is that when I publish a drawing with a linked PDF from Excel file, it publishes upside down! Very very unusual....
Any one else get this? or have an idea as to why it happens/how to fix?

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[Anonymous]

Cheers.