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2021-04-13 10:04 AM - last edited on 2023-05-19 10:06 PM by Gordana Radonic
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2021-04-20 02:49 PM
Minh Nguyen
Technical Support Engineer
GRAPHISOFT
2021-04-13 10:26 AM
2021-04-13 01:30 PM
Barry wrote:I sincerely hope not. I've sent it to our local rep support.
Is it because of the round end to lines in Archicad?
Barry.
2021-04-14 01:30 PM
2021-04-14 03:49 PM
sboydturner wrote:Good but doesn't help me
Mats,
PDF exported for Archicad is typically more accurate than that exported from Autodesk products, whenever I check a PDF in Bluebeam from Archicad they dimension correctly but from either AutoCAD or Revit there is a small discrepancy (up to about 1mm / meter)
Scott
2021-04-15 11:04 AM
2021-04-15 09:29 PM
Erwin wrote:yes pdf...which is what we use more and more. Clever programs should have the ability round numbers. Just curious where this comes from . No answer from GS support yet.
Isn't this the result of scaling something to a papersize (assuming you are measuring something on a PDF with other software)?
Somewhere in the magic of DPI, PDF file format etc etc something gets lost?
Something like IFC or DWG should yield better result for 3rd parties checking dimension etc
2021-04-19 10:47 AM
2021-04-19 11:37 PM
2021-04-20 09:49 AM
DGSketcher wrote:It's more a general question concerning all users of pdf's. Have to live with it I guess. The use of pdf's in digital apps is booming while we print much less. Mega-pdf + Dalux/Streambim/similar is the way to go..."paperless" projects.
As Erwin said there is a translation to PDF compromise. I frequently have to work from vector PDFs and rely where possible on the displayed dimensions. In my experience you cannot rely on the PDF vectors which will always have potential errors. If you want to share reliable 2D data save the view to DWG, (until GS sort out reading PMK files in different versions of AC. ).