import master layout

[Anonymous]

can i import a master layout from another .pln file?

[Anonymous]

It only seems to have that option on a mac. Or possibly not available on SE? Are there any windows users who know if this option is located somewhere different?

[Laszlo Nagy]

I am afraid it is not available.
In the full version you have the Browse Project command in that little list you show on your screenshot. With that command you can open another Project and show its project structure in the left pane of the Organizer, then drag-and-drop items from it to the active Project, shown in the right pane of the Organizer. This way you can import Master Layouts as well from other Projects.
However, it seems that this is not available in your ARCHICAD version. Must be a limitation in the Start Edition (If I recall correctly collaboration features are not available in the Start Edition):

http://www.graphisoft.com/archicad/start-edition/

[Anonymous]

I have a related issue.

We have all our master layouts contained in the template, and this template gets updated, usually with each new issue of Archicad.

If opening an older drawing, and discovering that the master layouts are in the 'old style', we then use Merge to bring in the 'new style' masters from the latest template.

What you would expect to happen is that the new masters would overwrite the old ones, and all the layouts would update seamlessly. But no! We end up with two versions of each master, and there's no way of telling which is new and which old. As a workaround, you can rename all the old ones first, and then laboriously reassign each layout to a new master.

But wouldn't an over-write option make life easier?

[Laszlo Nagy]

I don't think those Masters are identified by name.
They probably have some internal identifier. (Like attributes: they are identified by ARCHICAD by index number, not by name - name is just one of their settings).
I think this is the reason you get duplicates and not the imported Master overwriting the existing one with the same name.

However, this could be a wish, if you would like to make one: the ability to overwrite an existing Master Layout with the same name when importing Master Layouts. (In the Attribute Manager you can import Attributes this way.)

[Anonymous]

Thanks Laszio

Will make a wish!

[Erwin Edel]

For this reason I use a worksheet that contains our different master layout lineworks and texts that are standard. Save the worksheet as views, place the views on the master layouts.

When updating masters for some reason, now all you have to do is edit these worksheets.

A typical project for us has maybe 3 or 4 of such worksheets needed, as they repeat on different sized sheets generally.

[David Maudlin]

Keith wrote:
As a workaround, you can rename all the old ones first, and then laboriously reassign each layout to a new master.

Another option: open the other ArchiCAD file and copy & paste from one Master Layout to the other Master Layout.

Also: you can select multiple Layouts in the Navigator and change their Master Layout assignment at once via the Master Layout pop-up under Properties.

HTH,

David