Problems with publishing DWF

[Anonymous]

I am attempting to publish DWF from AC and tried a zillion different ways but it does not work.
The first image shows the plan how it shoudl look at the second image shows what the published DWF file looks like.
Everything is squashed into one long line. Could somebody please help.
Thanks.

[Anonymous]

I tried that as well, same problem.
I give up.

[Anonymous]

Patric,

I looked at your file. Here's what I think the problem is and I'm posting it here rather than in private email because maybe someone will remember under what topic something similar to this came up (probably last summer) or have had a similar experience.

I think the main factor in the problem is related to the distance of the drawing from the Absolute Origin being 555 million mm. Prior to 9.0 this could cause problems in a variety of ways.

Second, fonts were set to a fixed size (you are using mm vs points) and I think that this was also causing a problem because after I moved everything closer to the origin the only problem with the drawing seemed to be that the DWF looked just like it would if you printed a drawing at a scale less than the plan scale (text is all lumped up in the center of the drawing).

Here's what I would try... just to satisfy my curiosity; open the original 8.0 project in 8.0 and go to the ground floor. Turn all layers on, set the coordinates (X,Y) to absolute and draw a heavy marque around the entire drawing.

Drag everything to Absolute 0,0 and save with a new name. Open the resulting file in 9.0 and see what happens when you create a DWF.



Woody

[Anonymous]

I will instruct my collegue who worked on the the 8 file to do that. He works in another office and the file that was drawn in version 8 has been superseded for 4 month. I will ask him do that anyways just to check if that was what was causing the problem.
You mentioned the text being a problem. After installing AC9 started using text in mm by default. So are you saying that i should be using the text tool always with points?

[Anonymous]

At least the problem is creative. When I started out the DWF would arrange everything in a line in the centre of the page. Now that I have moved everthing to the 0,0 origin everything is arranged in the lower left corner in a circle. (see pic)
By the way, how do i select Text in the entire drawing not just on one floor?

[Anonymous]

patricprz wrote:
You mentioned the text being a problem. After installing AC9 started using text in mm by default. So are you saying that i should be using the text tool always with points?

I like setting the text in points because 12 point text is 12 points whether the scale is 1/4" = 1'0" or 1 1/2" = 1'0". I like to set line weights by points as well for the same reason (I would really like to hear what others have to say about this).

patricprz wrote:
At least the problem is creative. When I started out the DWF would arrange everything in a line in the centre of the page. Now that I have moved everthing to the 0,0 origin everything is arranged in the lower left corner in a circle. (see pic)

That is exactly what I got (the pic)

patricprz wrote:
By the way, how do i select Text in the entire drawing not just on one floor?

Activate the text tool; Control+A (CMD+A on Mac)... but you have to do it for each floor.

Woody

[Anonymous]

Ok, check this out. I have been trying EVERYTHING and I discovered something.
If i draw a slab around (thin red line in the pic) the DWF published correctly.
I still don't know what is causing the problem.

[Anonymous]

patricprz wrote:
Ok, check this out. I have been trying EVERYTHING and I discovered something.
If i draw a slab around (thin red line in the pic) the DWF published correctly.
I still don't know what is causing the problem.

UNBELIEVABLE !!!!! Are you sure there's nothing else you changed? I'm going to have to let that rumble around in my head for a while.

Woody

[Anonymous]

Oh and i checked how big the slab has to be.
It only starts working once the slab is larger than ~218000 x 218000 mm.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

I will follow your advice on points versus mm.
Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Actually, ingnore my statement about the points vs mm related to the Fixed Size text. Something is happening in the translation from ArchiCAD to DWF that would indicate a problem associated with these settings but other things about it don't make sense.

The problem may go back to the original 8.0 file and if so, given that you've done considerable work on it since converting to 9.0 the slab solution (which I could not replicate) may be your only choice.

Woody

[Djordje]

patricprz wrote:
You mentioned the text being a problem. After installing AC9 started using text in mm by default. So are you saying that i should be using the text tool always with points?

Units don't matter. What does matter is whether the text is scale sensitive or not. If you use fixed text, you are working like in AutoCAD - specifying the text size in project units, instead of the printed size which was ArchiCAD's default until 9. IMHO it should have stayed so.

I work in metric, and points for text size have no meaning for me in a technical document.