plotmaker 3.1 q's about fills, linked views and titles names

[Eduardo Rolon]

Three q's that I have not been able to fix and need help:
1) when i link views or pmks from AC to PM the fills even though solid become transparent showing elements that i don't need.
2) On update from linked views PM hangs up and freezes requiring that i shut down the comp, since force quit does not work.
3) title names from linked views using <drawingname> display correctly (no .pmk ext) but since i cant use the link views and i am using pmk's then i get the .pmk extension on the title. Is there a way to get rid of it without exploding the title and editing the text. ( I have tried publishing from AC without the extensions and setting OS X to not show them but they always appear.)

Appreciate the help
ejrolón
PWB 1.33 1GB ram
OS Panther 10.3.2
AC 8.1 V1

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[Djordje]

ejrolon wrote:
1) when i link views or pmks from AC to PM the fills even though solid become transparent showing elements that i don't need.

Check the fill background setting in ArchiCAD; check the fill setting in PlotMaker - by default it is on Bitmap, I usually switch it to Keep original settings (see attached).

Does it print correctly form ArchiCAD?

2) On update from linked views PM hangs up and freezes requiring that i shut down the comp, since force quit does not work.

This sounds like a memory leak; try closing ArchiCAD when you are updating, as another background ArchiCAD is strating up anyway. Did you download and apply the patch?

3) title names from linked views using <drawingname> display correctly (no .pmk ext) but since i cant use the link views and i am using pmk's then i get the .pmk extension on the title. Is there a way to get rid of it without exploding the title and editing the text. ( I have tried publishing from AC without the extensions and setting OS X to not show them but they always appear.)

Regretfully there is no workaround around this, except covering the extensions with fills Therefore auto titles work best with linked views.

[Eduardo Rolon]

It prints perfectly from AC. In PM what i get is what i see. I am running 8.1.0v1 (1410) and PM 3.1.0 (1410).
BTW how does one fix a memory leak?

[Eduardo Rolon]

Changed the settings in PM and now it prints the same as in AC.
Thanks
Still can't get to update the PM file views even though i am not running any progs except OS X system stuff.

[Eduardo Rolon]

Now PM does not hangup but when i try to update I get error

"256 file is not found, connection failed"

which is absurd since i work on only one machine, there is no network and i can open the file either using AC or BgAC. I have tried relinking the files and it does not work.

any help is appreciated

[Eduardo Rolon]

this has become a monologue. My solution to the "error 256"

delete the grafisoft folder under

"<username>/library/cache/"

Did that and BgAC started working ok and updating fast.

[Djordje]

ejrolon wrote:
this has become a monologue. My solution to the "error 256"

delete the grafisoft folder under

"<username>/library/cache/"

Did that and BgAC started working ok and updating fast.

Sorry ... Christmas and all that ...

This says that you had a case of corrupt library cache; gald you found it!

Enjoy!