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Plotting to 36" wide roll feed

I just bought a used HP 650c plotter, with no manual. (The price was too good to pass up.) I'm new to roll feed. My drawings are coming out oriented the wrong way on the sheet. How do I change plot setup in Plotmaker so that my 24" x 36" (architectur...

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Layouts

Hi yet another question from me! Ok, i need to layout my sheets now ive completed my drawings. Im trying to set out an A1 sheet with plans + sections @ 1:100 and renders etc. But im hitting a few hopefully minor snags. This is what i do. -Open plot m...

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Virtual Building - Material List

Howdy, I would like to know how many of you are using ArchiCad to produce complete material lists/takeoffs for studs, floor joists, roof framing, etc. I am a designer for a residential design/build firm. We specialize in remodeling and additions. Occ...

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Printing grayscale from 3D window to HP4V

I am new to this exchange forum so this question may already have been answered. I used to be able to print very good quality gray tone images to my HP4v printer from the 3D window (in ArchiCad 6 and earlier versions) in the shaded mode. In ArchiCad ...

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Plotmaker shrinking output

Does anyone know why this is happening; Plotmaker is printing my pmk files at about 85% of actual scale. I don't know why, could it be in the plot or drawing setup? Thanks Shaz

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error while launching ArchiCad in Background

I receive this message "error while launching ArchiCad in background" when attempting to import a .pln file into plotmaker. This happens with both V8.0 r3 & 8.1. All our files are stored on a server, and does not happen to other people in the office,...

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Publishing to DwG

i tried to publish my work to dwg from the plot maker. it work but i couldn't get the legend that i had in the maters with each layout. so i got the dwg at the end without legend!!! any clue?!!

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PMK's w/ renamed layers do not limk properly in PM

I have some PMK's created in AC7 form Quickviews using publisher. Within these quick views was a layer called S-Grid. For sorting reasons I Renamed this layer S_1-Grid ( _ is a blank space). The QV in AC work fine with the later renamed, but the crea...

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Linked PMK's Missing information

Question asked back in escirbe http://www.escribe.com/software/archicadtalk/m33088.html Dealing with PM 3.0 Still the same problem with PM 3.1 I am using Publish in AC7.03 to create PMKs from saved Quickviews. (using Publisher and also trying save as...

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PM 3.1 - Title Type & Imported PMK

I am using PM3.1 with a Layout book that has "worked" in PM 3.0. If a PMK is imported into a Layout sheet and then a zoom all is selected the screen area turns gray with a "Title Type 001" Box at the top. See attachment. What is going on? Also if an ...

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