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Architectural fonts?

Is there a way to update or import architectural style fonts other than the default ones included with plotmaker? I am looking for something a little more interesting for the title text

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Printing Help Please

Hello To Whomever Can Help, I have a Mac and ArchCad 9. I have no way of getting to the Printing in 2D Menu. My only printing options are lanscape/portrait, number of copies and scale ratio. Has anyone else had this problem? How can I get to th Print...

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Plotmaker Problem- update error: change of dimension format

Changed dimension preference from "fractional inches" to "feet and inches" in ArchiCad . In Plotmaker after updating the dwgs. , it still retained fractional inches. I did the obvious troubleshooting - erased plots and re-sent them etc. Why would plo...

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Automatic Numbering for Details in Plotmaker

We have setup our maser layout as a grid, however when we import our details with the title types attached they are not numbered, I am sure there must be a setting that I am not using. Please Help.

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Problem: Publish to PDF fails. (from PLOTMAKER)

I try to publish some drawing to pdf. It fails to write the file to disk. If i have many plots to a single pdf, it passes them all correctly, one by one, and at the last one fails to write it. I wonder what it is. Any clues?

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Scale Sensitive option not working correctly

I'm a newbie to ArchiCAD however there seems to be a bug in the program. I have created a window using the W1 casement from the library. Under the Window Selection Settings-Parameters I have set the Option to Scale sensitive. However when I change th...

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Plotmaker refresh problem

Has anyone else experienced the need to refresh or rebuild a PM layout sheet everytime you move, stretch, adjust any file in PM. This is soooooo annoying and time consuming. I'm using PM 3.0 but this has occurred as far back as version 2.1. It seems ...

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Radius in verticle wall?

I have a 8 inch thick, 6 foot long, verticle brick wall that is 5 foot high on the left and 3 foot high on the right. Instead of a straight line from left to right, I want an inverted arch to give a nice sweeping look to the wall. A wrought-iron gate...

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Text Rotation not consistent between AC & PM

I am using a north arrow ! Document name: North Arrow ! ! ! Name : North Arrow.GSM ! Date : Saturday, April 28, 2001 ! Version : 6.50 ! Written by ArchiCAD I do not actually remember how I received it, but the Object is not the problem. In the attach...

North Arrow in AC.JPG
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Plomaker not updating views in networked environment (Mac)

We have found the following anomaly with PlotMaker. We keep all of our models and layout books on a server. Each layout book will have views from multiple models inserted into its sheets. Some of the models are shared and others are solo models. This...

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