output scale problem

[Anonymous]

hello all,

right, so I'm very new to archicad, and I'm already liking it a lot more than architectural desktop, which is the program I used prior to archicad.

anyway, I'm having a spot of trouble with plotmaker, where i set the output scale to make the plan fit the page, but in the autotext for output scale, it shows 1' = 1'-0"

I have a feeling that I'm doing something wrong when I'm setting the output scale, so ill let you know how I'm doing that. when i add a drawing to the layout i rightclick on it and select settings, then on the window that comes up, under "attribute update rules" i select "custom for this drawing" and then uncheck layers, and scale. next under "attributes" i set the scale (in this case to 1/4" = 1'-0")

any help would be appreciated.

cheers,
Dan

[Richard Morrison]

Daniel,

I'm just guessing about your problem, but the autotext scale function needs to be attached to a specific drawing, either by embedding it in the original AC drawing itself, or by putting it in a title, which is then attached to the AC drawing by Plotmaker. If you just enter it in directly from Plotmaker, it is picking up the entire layout page's scale, which is 1'= 1'-0". Hope that's clear.

[Anonymous]

Finally someone has made sense of this Thanks for the clarification Richard

[Erika Epstein]

Back at ACUWest one of Graphisoft's team showed a way making a scale relate to a particular drawing, not the overall layout.

I thought it was alt-clicking a drawing and/or using the option in the edit menu to
set as autotext reference

Unfortunately I can't get that to work. Does anyone else remember how it was done?

[Djordje]

OUTPUTSCALE reads the layout.

If you use a title attached to a drawing, containing DRAWINGSCALE, it will read a proper scale.

[Anonymous]

thanks for the responses, just out of curiiousity though, Djordje, how do I "attactch" a title to a drawing? are you referring to the "append title to drawing" in the PM drawing settings?

cheers,
dan

[TomWaltz]

Daniel wrote:
thanks for the responses, just out of curiiousity though, Djordje, how do I "attactch" a title to a drawing? are you referring to the "append title to drawing" in the PM drawing settings?

cheers,
dan

Yes. In each Layout Book, you can define "Title Types" that allow you to have different titles for use on your drawings.

You can also place the AutoText in Archicad and have Plotmaker fill it in.

[Anonymous]

thanks to everyone for their answers,
finally after 6 months, I finally understand this issue now, I guess I was never thinking in terms of the plotmaker layout actually being a drawing in and of itself. I'm starting to see the light at the end of the plotmaker tunnel (wll now I have another issue, but... such is life)

cheers,
dan

[Djordje]

Daniel wrote:
thanks for the responses, just out of curiiousity though, Djordje, how do I "attactch" a title to a drawing? are you referring to the "append title to drawing" in the PM drawing settings?

Yep.

You can create your own by copying, then pasting existing ones, and editing them.