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Plotmaker drawing usage and file paths

Can someone please confirm if I am interpreting this correctly; In Plotmaker 9; drawing usage menu; pull down menu; 'properties' a file path is indicated, which relates to the Archicad .pln location and other drawings, such as .dwg, .dwf etc. Our job...

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Plot Flow in OS X-Where's my AppleTalk?

In OS 9 I can configure Plot Flow to use any AppleTalk printer but for some unknown reason, at least to me, the OS X version can only do IP printing and USB. We have an old Blue & White G3 running OS 9 that we use specifically for our Plot Server; it...

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PM9 - "views" knocked back to "PMKs"

We have a couple of layout books that are having repeated problems with imported views not updating. Worse yet, they become inserted PMKs in the views so manual relinking is required. I think this has to do with the size of the AC9 model they are bei...

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Window & Door Transparency in Plotmaker 9

We have started to use v9 for production. Something strange is happening on one of the designers jobs that I'm not experiencing myself and I can't figure it out. We have windows and doors that are showing OK in AC9 yet showing as transparent in PM9. ...

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Resolved! Distorted & Missing elements in PM9

Our office has just updated to AC9 on Mac OSX (10.3). We are occasionally having a problem with arcs and other drawing elements being distorted in the conversion from Archicad to Plotmaker. One occasion has been with arcs. After working on a sheet, I...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Not good result when trying to print PDF made from Archicad

Hi! I've got a Dwg file created in Archicad. I open it in Autocad, and it looks good, I create a PDF with Adobe PDF (6.0 installed) and it looks great. BUT when I print the PDF file, I get a thick diagonal line across the drawing? And when I try to p...

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Plotmaker problem

When plotting a library book (3 sheets/"D" size), and selecting "all colors to black", two sheets plot correctly while one sheet plots in grayscale-- the entire sheet, title block, border contents, all. I have checked all settings (all that I know of...

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Translate page layout to autocad

I have jumped from version 7 to 9. Although I can translate individual drawings from archicad to autocad in archicad 9. I cant translate the page layout-(All the drawings arranged in the 24 x 36 page and the border with the company name) I could do t...

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PDF output in plotmaker 9

I have been less than happy with the new PDF save option in archicad and plotmaker 9. Often times when using this new feature I get one or more sheets that "fail" according to the progress dialog box. Most of the time these failed sheets appear to ou...

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