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Plotmaker 3.1.0.v1

Is there a way, when importing a AC project into Plotmaker to shape the drawing "window" in shapes other than a square or rectangle?? What if the room I am wanting to show is triangular, is there a way for the window to be triangular??

TIA!

Steve Ericsson
Olympia, Washington
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Anonymous
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Steve wrote:
Is there a way, when importing a AC project into Plotmaker to shape the drawing "window" in shapes other than a square or rectangle?? What if the room I am wanting to show is triangular, is there a way for the window to be triangular??
With the fill tool draw a polygon the shape you would like the window to be.

Select the fill and the drawing.

Choose Edit/Set Polygon as Drawing Frame.

Woody
__archiben
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Steve wrote:
Is there a way, when importing a AC project into Plotmaker to shape the drawing "window" in shapes other than a square or rectangle?? What if the room I am wanting to show is triangular, is there a way for the window to be triangular??
yes - right-click on the drawing in question and go to "Drawing Settings...". you should see a setting in there somewhere for changing the drawing setting from a rectangle to a ploygon. once you've set it to 'polygon' you can edit the drawing boundary as you would any polygon in archiCAD: dragging nodes around and clicking an edge to create new nodes . . .

HTH
~/archiben
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__archiben
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woodster wrote:
With the fill tool draw a polygon the shape you would like the window to be.

Select the fill and the drawing.

Choose Edit/Set Polygon as Drawing Frame.
oooh! that's a good one - i've never done it that way before . . .

cheers
~/archiben
b e n f r o s t
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Anonymous
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~/archiben wrote:
oooh! that's a good one - i've never done it that way before . . .
It's the way we did it back in the olden days

I never did it your way. In Plotmaker 3 one had more freedom to develop the shape my way. In PlotMaker 9 you get the full capability to edit polygons as you get in ArchiCAD...

I'm switching to your way!
Aussie John
Newcomer
i've been using plotmaker since version 2(i think) or 3 and never noticed that option of setting polygon to frame
Cheers John
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Anonymous
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Ben, that is AWSOME!! That is exactly what I was looking for!!! Woodie, great idea, unfortunately I like Ben's much better!

Thanks, fellas! Hey, by the way Woodie, did you teach ArchiCamp in Oakland Ca. a few years ago? If so, we attended and it was great - thanks!
Anonymous
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Steve wrote:
Hey, by the way Woodie, did you teach ArchiCamp in Oakland Ca. a few years ago? If so, we attended and it was great - thanks!


I did... and we are in the midst of putting ArchiCAMP back on the map! Stay tuned!

Woody
Ben Odonnell
Contributor
woodster wrote:
Steve wrote:
Is there a way, when importing a AC project into Plotmaker to shape the drawing "window" in shapes other than a square or rectangle?? What if the room I am wanting to show is triangular, is there a way for the window to be triangular??
With the fill tool draw a polygon the shape you would like the window to be.

Select the fill and the drawing.

Choose Edit/Set Polygon as Drawing Frame.

Woody
Woody,
What other plotmaker tips have got up you sleeve ?

I would really like to hear what your plans are for the ArchiCAMP as well. Could be a concept we could use here in Sweden.

Cheers.
Ben
Ben O'Donnell
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