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Interactive Schedules Unit Display

Does any body know if there is a way to have the distances in Interactive Schedules show according to the dimensions preferences? I would like the size of the windows/doors/sills etc. to display as 3'-0" instead of 3'. Thanks

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Changing Dimension Ticks

Hello - I have looked in the manual and searched the forum and cannot find an answer to my question. I have also looked through the GDL library. Can I change the width of the tick on the dimension line? I would like to make the ticks considerably thi...

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Checking Dimensions

Hello - I have searched the help files and this forum looking for an easy way to check dimensions on a plan. In AutoCAD there is a tool to pick two points and it displays the dimension without placing it on the plan. Is there a way to do this in Arch...

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Plotmaker Publishing to DWG

When i publish the layout book to DWG all the drawing titles disappear I am not sure if it is a problem with plotmaker or in the DWG translator. The information on the titles are important to my subs and I have been unsucessfull at finding what the p...

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Error when PC users try to open My OSX created PDF

I have created a 3 page(24x36) PDF for a project we are working on. The PDF opens fine on anything I try to open it with on my mac. I have sent it to two PC users that get an error message when they try to open it. They get an "error opening a page" ...

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Re-center Dim Texts by Dragging the String

If you've never noticed (I hadn't)... If you drag a dimension string, the texts will re-center themselves on their segments, assuming the texts have not been moved manually. Those stay where you put them. You don't actually have to drag the string an...

yet another printing problem :(

Right then, so hopefully this will be the last problem I have for awhile... I'm starting to understand the "love hate relationship" consensus with plotmaker, so anyway, heres the wee problem i'm having with it now. when I draw the plans out and dimen...

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Dimension Orientation

In all my infinite wisdom, I've stumbled across another problem I cant work out I've just drawn full plans up for a house, and after I got everything set up and did the plotmaker setup and what not, I printed the entire layout book, and realized half...

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pdf's don't always print with embedded fonts

I routinely send pdfs rather than plts to get prints. Some blueprinters around the US produce prints from pdfs with not the embedded fonts. This occurs even with Arial and Arial Narrow. Has anyone else had this happen and/or know why? Is there someth...

output scale problem

hello all, right, so I'm very new to archicad, and I'm already liking it a lot more than architectural desktop, which is the program I used prior to archicad. anyway, I'm having a spot of trouble with plotmaker, where i set the output scale to make t...

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