Publishing to DWG in Plotmaker

[TDabney]

Hi -

This may be more of a wish. . . I would like to publish layouts in PM to DWG. I would like those DWGs to look like the pages I've arranged in PM. For example, in a layout I have some elevations. In ArchiCAD, the way I do my elevations is to eventually unlink them and drag a grouped copy down 100' or so to edit. I leave the original elevation generated from the model so any updates can be transfered easily to the (now) cleaned up line drawing below. In PM, I just have the cleaned up elevation showing - by adjusting the "view frame". When I publish the layout to a DWG, the entire - unadjusted view frame - section view is published. It also seems to get moved around from how I layed it out on the PM page. I know there are other ways to get around this but. . . PM is our "layout" solution. When I send my drawings to consultants, I want them to look as they would if I sent them a hard copy. It seems like PM should be able to produce this. - Am I doing something incorrectly or missing something?

PS: the same goes for the master layouts.

Tom

[Anonymous]

~/archiben wrote:

Patrick wrote:
Djordje, I have tried your same instructions using AC9, but when I open the newly written .dwg file, it opens empty!

it's not empty!

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=29064#29064

~/archiben

How would this affect plotmaker?

[__archiben]

Millard wrote:
How would this affect plotmaker?

i thought you were trying to open it with archiCAD, but actually considering this a little further . . . it may well affect plotmaker's ability to open it as well:

plotmaker opens only paperspace content right? which means that if the paperspace storey is the one without anything on, it won't show anything? just a shot in the dark . . .

by the way - have you found the whole paperspace/storey's issue to be as i said with archiCAD?

~/archiben

[Djordje]

Aussie wrote:

TDabney wrote:
Hi -

When I publish the layout to a DWG, the entire - unadjusted view frame - section view is published. Tom

There is an option in the translator to crop the layout to only that seen.

... and it saves to model space in that case.

Practically, there is no way to crop AND have PaperSpace straight from PlotMaker.

I also had cases of blank Paper Space, never Model Space without Paper Space.

Or, EVERYTHING is in PaperSpace - it is another option.

If you want it cropped, it is best to save all to Model Space. Then the titleblock etc can be deleted and/or edited.