Fractions changing between drawing and plotting

[Anonymous]

I'm drafting some items on 1st floor, scale is set up to acknowledge 1/8" fractions.

When I plot them, it's only reading 1/2" scale and is bumping all my dimensions to the closest 1/2".

Example:

1'-4 7/8" (on 1st story plan)

1-5" (when I plot it)

I really need it to show what I measured, can't figure out how to change it... Please I need help. *sigh*

Thanks for reading.

[Eduardo Rolon]

Check that your Dim Settings match the saved ones that are part of your views.

[Eduardo Rolon]

The settings saved with your Views

[Anonymous]

Hi ejrolon,

Thank you for replying. I have found the first picture you added. the overall project settings but where do I go for my View Settings?

I've been at this for quite sometime and... am lost.

N.

[Eduardo Rolon]

It is the setting for the View that you save from your model and place on your layout for printing.

[Anonymous]

Thank you!!

It worked. *relief*

You were very helpful.

Cheers!

Norah

[Anonymous]

In another topic, I referred to the problems that I am having with learning how to efficiently use Archicad. This is a perfect illustration of what I meant. You're someone who is far more proficient than I am with it, but still managed to find a simple problem that caused you a bit of frustration. From what I see, Archicad has far too many things that are controlled in multiple areas. Sort of turn it on here, leave it off there, if you're doing one thing. Reverse the order for doing something else. And so on.
Last night, I spent three hours just trying to figure out how to lay out multiple drawings on a single sheet for plotting and never did figure it out. Every time that I would select another view (or whatever Archicad refers to for the layout), the existing one would take that assignment.
Then, when I finally gave up, other than for the floor plan, I could never get back into the drawing files such as elevations. I would select those, and be taken back to the layout sheet.
Being that I am just playing with the program in order to evaluate it as a potential "up-grade," I only shrug and carry on. If I were attempting to actually turn out a project, I can't imagine how upset I would be.
Glad that you got a solution to your problem. These folks in this forum seem to be the best part of Archicad.
Woody

[Eduardo Rolon]

owoody,

If you can trust us, your frustrations are because you are just learning. If you are old enough you might remember the same feelings from going from the drafting table to 2D Autocad.

Most of these settings make sense after awhile though it is easier to forget and I agree they might be more obvious.

For working on Layouts it helps if you know how to use Adobe's InDesign or Pagemaker or Coreldraw the Layout Book behaves basically in the same way.

The base procedure goes as follows
- Save a Model View (plan, section, elev, etc) by right clicking in the Navigator (avoid using Save View and Place on Layout for now)
- Open the Layout Book and choose a Layout by double-click (Do not do it on a Master, these control page size, grids, etc.) in The Navigator make sure that you are looking at the View Map and select a view and drop it in the Layout. Repeat as necessary.
- If you drop the view in the wrong layout click on the triangle next to the layout name in the Navigator to see what drawings have been placed on this page and move it to the page/layout you want.
- Once you do this every change you make to the model will update in every instance were that view is in the layout. Next step is learning how to control all the settings so you get the drawing looking as you want.
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The interactive training guide is very good with these basics.