Printing/Displaying GhostStory in PMK?

[Jacek]

Hi, is anyone succesful in displaying ghoststory in Plotmaker?
I am trying to save a 'view' of the Ground Floor plan with the Site Contours (shown as ghost story) but I can't save them into Plotmaker, they do not display.
I know that I can save them as a separate drawing and overlay the plan in Plotmaker, but would like a easier solution, any ideas?
Jacek

[Djordje]

Jacek wrote:
I know that I can save them as a separate drawing and overlay the plan in Plotmaker, but would like a easier solution, any ideas?

Sadly, no.

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[Anonymous]

Is your reason for wanting to show a ghost story in PM so that the ghost story elements would be screened? If so (and if the elements are on the same story in AC) this can be accomplished with pens in PM.

Just set the contours to a specific pen color in AC and then set that same pen in PM to a gray color. When printed (not plotted) and as long as you *do not* check "all colors to black" the contours will then print as gray.

[Jacek]

Eric wrote:
Is your reason for wanting to show a ghost story in PM so that the ghost story elements would be screened?

Eric, as Djordje said in his post -"sadly , no.."

I am trying to present the ground floor on the site survey drawing, imported into the model for reference, as an illustration for the geotechnical guy to do his stuff; soil testing, borings and reports.
It's a question of wether to merge the plan onto a survey drawing or the survey on a different story than the plan and use it as reference to design the building (s).
-I chose the second solution.
In the meentime I have saved each of the views separately and superimposed the plan over the site, it works but it took a while to align both properly.
Thank's for the help, both of you,
Jacek

[Djordje]

Jacek wrote:
In the meentime I have saved each of the views separately and superimposed the plan over the site, it works but it took a while to align both properly.

Strategically placed hotspots make a world of difference. Place the hotspots of the reference points in both the plan and the survey, and you can easily align them in PlotMaker.

[Jacek]

Djordje wrote:
Strategically placed hotspots make a world of difference.

Of course!
I sometimes forget about the most simple solution to a problem!
God is in the details... once again

[Anonymous]

Hello -

I noticed all of these posts are from 2003. I am using ArchiCAD 9. Is there a way in Plotmaker 9 to print the ghost story or do I still have to go through the hotspot method. TIA

Best regards - Chris

[Link]

The same process is necessary. And don't forget to set the correct Display Order for these superimposed views. I also recommend grouping them, so that if one is moved, they are both moved.

Cheers,
Link.

[Andy Thomson]

To do this I usually create a patch, then copy the gsm up to the story in question, convert object pens to grey (or whatever your preferred ghost pen is), and send to back.

That way no need to overlay in PM.

[Link]

That way no need to overlay in PM.

But completely static!