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dimension - centre line and o/s face of wall

I have posted this awhile ago but didn't get any response although many viewings. I'm trying this again because it is annoying to have an unresolved problem. I was dimensioning to the outside face of the building . I saved, and closed. When i opened ...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Details in ArchiCAD

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PMK to PLN, How?

How to I get the information from a PMK file into a PLN file? Copying from PlotMaker to ArchiCAD gives you absolutely ridiculous results (no arcs, wrong text placement, etc). There has to be a way, wouldn't you think?

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Additions: existing, new, demo walls in floor plan

I have my existing, demo, and new walls in separate layers. I would like the existing and new walls to read differently in the floor plan (such as existing walls outlined only, or existing walls as if they had a hatch on them, etc.). The only way I c...

Ignacio by Advisor
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Publish and .mac

How can we do web publishing to a dotmac account? Anyone have tried?

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Layers in plotmaker

I have an archicad drawing imported into plotmaker and want to turn some layers off. After selecting the drawing and selecting layers, I get the usual layer list - but I also get a 'view mode' label over the top and I can't change the selection of vi...

KeesW by Advocate
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!Restored: Elevation symbol

I'm trying to get an interior elevation going and I thought there was a way to only have one elevation symbol show for the interior elevation (i.e.: one in the middle). Was I dreaming? Otherwise what is the reason for the options of Section and Eleva...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Displaying door information (e.g: fire rating) on plan

Anyone know a simple way to display a particular listing parameter such as the fire rating of a door on the floor plan next to individual doors? You can type in 'FD30(s) ' etc in the fire section of the doors ArchiFM & listing parameters so that it a...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Runtime error in Plotmaker

Hi there, Despite restarting and running only plotmaker, I am getting the following error when trying to update drawings. This has just started happening in the last week, restarting helped at first, not today: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Ru...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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PlotMaker R2 Error

In the graphic below, the top half shows a screen shot of a PlotMaker layout in 8.1 R1. I then loaded R2 build 2256. The lower half of the graphic shows the results -- extraneous lines on the floor plan. Moving to different machines verifies that R2 ...

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