Mirroring Drawings as a build option

[benjaminarstevens]

Hello friends,

I'm curious if drawings can be mirrored on a layout while maintaining dimensions/etc. I assume not, but our office is working on a building that is to be cut-pasted across a site, but one of the modules has to be mirrored for a number of reasons.

Is it simply necessary to make a second file and mirror the entire model?

peace to all

B_B

[Gordana Radonic]

Hi @benjaminarstevens, 

I believe that you cannot mirror drawings on layouts - just rotate, but I believe dimensions' text orientation will not follow that rotation. However, if you rotate a view and save it, dimensions and texts will follow your rotation.

  

I would also recommend using hotlinks, and while placing hotlinks you can mirror and rotate them. I would recommend this especially if you have repetitive parts of the buildings and/or multiple blocks of the buildings. You can even save the entire building as a hotlink, and place it in the same or separate Archicad instance. Some useful links:

 https://help.graphisoft.com/AC/28/INT/index.htm?rhcsh=1&rhnewwnd=0&rhmapid=#t=_AC28_Help%2F080_Colla...

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Project-data-BIM/Hotlinked-Modules/ta-p/303819 

Hope it helps, 

Gordana

[Lingwisyer]

I am pretty sure that Hotlinking will mirror all of your floorplan dimensions, but you will still need to redo everything that is in an elevation or section View...

[zoli79]

I added a wish here:

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Wishlist/Mirror-Drawing/idi-p/669950

[Lingwisyer]

Note: this is a broader wish is about the Drawing Tool in in terms of both Internal and External content while this thread is about Modelling Elements and Modules. It would be a provide a possible solution in this specific situation though.

[Skyhook]

You should investigate Central Innovations ‘Transformer’ addon. It appears to do what you are looking for….

[zoli79]

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@Lingwisyer wrote:

 this thread is about Modelling Elements and Modules.

OP wrote: "I'm curious if drawings can be mirrored on a layout while maintaining dimensions/etc."