Where are your sheet notes?

[Anonymous]

This is more of an autotext question. If plotmaker has all the auto numbering and autotext capabilities, why go through all the current workarounds to get autotext to work in ArchiCAD text? See the end of this message of an example. I am specifically asking about text. Autotext within objects, detail makers, and section makers is very easy to understand and teach.
Reading previous ArchiCAD-talk strings, it appears that most users would prefer to have all information in ArchiCAD and just import it into Plotmaker. Our firm is going through a merger which means our office, drawings, and CAD system will be overhauled. In making all those changes, I am training a new staff how to use and leverage the full capabilities of ArchiCAD and Plotmaker, while trying to keep it simple.

I would appreciate your feedback on the subject.
Also, would any beta testers be able share any future insights that would save me a lot of time setting up templates in regard to this topics? For future versions, is either direction a better choice to proceed on, for templates sake?

Thanks,
Michael Kopecky
AC9
Mac OX10.4.2

archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=625

[Steve Jepson]

TomWaltz wrote:
That's fine if you want them all the same length. Graphically, they look better if a wider drawing has a wider text block under it....

In your Master Title, make the line under your drawing name extra long.
Then stretch it to underline your drawing name.

[Link]

That's fine if you want them all the same length. Graphically, they look better if a wider drawing has a wider text block under it....

Well then turn text wrapping off and don't set the text block width - just double click and go!

In your Master Title, make the line under your drawing name extra long.
Then stretch it to underline your drawing name.

You'd be better off simply stretching the individual title frame IMHO, and that's only if you can't get away with using underlined text.

Just my 2 cents.

Link.

[TomWaltz]

Steve wrote:

TomWaltz wrote:
That's fine if you want them all the same length. Graphically, they look better if a wider drawing has a wider text block under it....

In your Master Title, make the line under your drawing name extra long.
Then stretch it to underline your drawing name.

Then it's one extra step for every single view placed in a project AND you have to hope the name does not change in length for any reason.

The object we have works spectacularly, and allows very fine level control , such as :

BUILDING 1:
MAIN LOBBY INTERIOR ELEVATION

If you autowrap that, it becomes:

BUILDING 1: MAIN
LOBBY INTERIOR ELEVATION

The line underneath extends to match the text length, and you can make subtle changes to the name of the "drawing" without renaming the plan/section/detail view window and worrying about linking issues in Plotmaker.

If this was all inside a title type, the colon may or may not come through (Archicad seems to prefer underscores sometimes) and you have to play with the auto-wrap with additional spaces in the view name to get the line break where you want it. You also have to worry about the random days when Plotmaker decides to move the title type independently of the drawings (yes, it's a bug). Also have to move the title type from its default location, since none of the anchors are really useful.

Unitl Title Types can match or exceed that, they're not that exciting to me. To me, they are just another feature that was well-intentioned but half-implemented.

[Steve Jepson]

Link wrote:
You'd be better off simply stretching the individual title frame IMHO, and that's only if you can't get away with using underlined text.

Just my 2 cents.

Link.

Yes. Thats what I mean. You don't stretch the line. You stretch the title frame only if needed for extra long titles. It is not that much trouble if you have to manually locate the title frame anyway. I am thinking of times when I have details of several different scales and sizes on the same layout sheet and have had to turn the grid for drawing numbers off in order to get the drawings on to the layout sheet with correct title numbers.

Using the underline text setting never looks good to me. I like to control where the the underline starts and stops. You can control where it starts by the location of the autotext. You can control how long the line under it is by stretching the title frame to show more or less line if needed for special details.