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About Archicad's documenting tools, views, model filtering, layouts, publishing, etc.

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PlotMaker Plot Stamp

Does anybody know if PM has a plot stamp which include path, date & time?

Anonymous by • Not applicable
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PDF Portrait or Landscape?

When I set up PDF files of drawings there is either the option to set at landscape or portrait. When selecting landscape as in normal printing the PDF file created is actually in portrait. When the PDF is saved (printed) in portrait it gets set up on...

Anonymous by • Not applicable
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Multiple Linking?

Is there a way to multiple link in Plotmaker? When I move a ArchiCAD file I then have to relink the file in the Plotmaker Navigator panel. Is there a global way of achieving this by just redirecting all view sets to the new file location? At the mome...

Anonymous by • Not applicable
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PM: How do I show the page breaks?

I want to see the page breaks in the PM layout book. I am using the latest version of PM. 3.1 v2. I have the Display Options set to show Page Breaks and Overlappings. All I see on the layout page is hte blue bounding box of my margins. anyone else ha...

tsturm by • Newcomer
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PM: Getting tired of the Redraws

Is there a way to set the preview on an imported drawing to always be Bitmapped instead of the color vectoral? I do not like taking the time to wait for each image to redraw to move something else on the layout. Along with this idea is the setting of...

tsturm by • Newcomer
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Model element layers in detail windows

Am I missing something obvious? I want to change the default layer of the 2D representations of 3D objects. We seem to be stuck with the archicad layer which cannot be turned off. What I'm trying to do is overdraw these elements with 2D data and have...

Anonymous by • Not applicable
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Drop-Rename equivalent for OS X, any idea?

There is this cool little Drop•Rename application for OS 9 which lets you drag a folder into it and change all folder+subfolder+file names by doing find&replace, adding a string at the beginning or at the end, etc. My whole folder/template system dep...

Ignacio by • Advisor
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PlotMaker/BGArchiCAD is driving me nuts.

Here's the situation: ArchiCAD 8.1v2/PlotMaker 3.1v2 (Mac) .lbk file located on a server, with drawings imported from a .plp located in the same folder as the layout book. My coworker opens up the layout book and updates the drawings. All library par...

PLT and DWG in PM

I got two situations: 1- When import .dwg in PM the print doesn't show lineweghts. 2- Whe import .plt in PM the following message appear: Unimplemented Instruction Occurred. "MC" "QL" "AC" "SV" "EC". How can I handle those issues?

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Error when importing into Plotmaker

Error while reading file: Main level 1_8.pmk (256: File is not found, connection failed) I'm getting this error message whenever I try to import anything into Plotmaker, on this house I'm doing. It started happening after I cancelled an import earlie...

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