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Tracing over a trace refererence

KeesW
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I am having to draw over PDF plans to create copies. I've set the PDF dwg as a trace reference so that I can draw over the top of them using the Archicad wall, door, window, tools. But I can only use some 2D tools such as lines and circles. If I try to trace over a 300 thick wall on the trace reference, with a new 300 thick wall, it doesn't work. That can't be right, surely because it is called a trace tool. What am I doing wrong?

Cornelis (Kees) Wegman

cornelis wegman architects
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Barry Kelly
Moderator

Are you by chance trying to model in a detail or worksheet window?

These are only 2D which is why you can only use 2D tools.

You should have no problem tracing in the floor plan.

 

Barry.

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Barry Kelly
Moderator

Are you by chance trying to model in a detail or worksheet window?

These are only 2D which is why you can only use 2D tools.

You should have no problem tracing in the floor plan.

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11
ryejuan
Advisor

also check the scale of the drawing you are tracing.

In the end what is your Objective?
ArchiCAD 9 onwards

Yes that was it. Thank you Barry. I thought that I'd be clever and put the drawing I was tracing into a worksheet.

Cornelis (Kees) Wegman

cornelis wegman architects
AC 5 - 26 Dell XPS 8940 Win 10 16GB 1TB SSD 2TB HD RTX 3070 GPU
Laptop: AC 24 - 26 Win 10 16GB 1TB SSD RTX 3070 GPU

You can put the drawing in a worksheet.

You then reference the worksheet from the plan view - rather than putting the drawing in the plan view itself.

Or place it in another storey and reference that storey.

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11