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PlotMaker--->Publisher--->DWG--->Archicad---->??

Anonymous
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I have published a drawing from PlotMaker on a .DWG file format.
I have tried to open this file within Archicad for a final check and mark-up notes but there were no lines visible whatsoever.The drawing vanished...
What am I doing wrong?

Jaime Neto
PowerBook G4, 1,5 Ghz, 1Gb DDR SRam, MacOSX 10.3.9
Archicad 9/ PlotMaker 9
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Laszlo Nagy
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Maybe you saved from PlotMaker into Paperspace in the DWG file, but when you opened it in ArchiCAD you set the translator to import the modelspace. Just guessing.
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Anonymous
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You can try to open it with edrawings free dwg viewer for mac downloadable here.
Anonymous
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try using model space in the translator
Anonymous
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syber wrote:
try using model space in the translator
After a certain amount of trial and error experiences, I understand now that if you want to check a published Plotmaker DWG drawing within Archicad, you have to do the following:
1. Publish the DWG drawing from Plotmaker using the option "model space with cropped drawing's content";
2. Opening on Archicad using the default translator.

Thank you all for your insights.

Jaime Neto
Archicad 9.0 / MacOSX, Powerbook G4

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