Automatic Updating in Plotmaker

[Anonymous]

Fairly newbie User here- working on my first project in plotmaker. I am having problems having my updated referenced drawings reflected as such in plotmaker.

I am choosing the drawing in plotmaker, checking to make sure the path is to the correct drawing, choose update and it does not want to reflect the changes. So I end up deleting the drawing in plotmaker and then importing the drawing again- then having to deal with manuevering the touchy frame/drawing to the correct position once again. Seems like a waste of time.

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks

Tad

[Anonymous]

Tad,
I am guessing here because you don't say what version
of Archicad you are using but after you
make a change in an Archicad drawing, you must re-publish the
drawing for the changes to show in PlotMaker.
Peter Devlin

[Anonymous]

Thanks Peter,

I'm using V.9 (My boss is leaning towards updating-and I have played with 10 and seems SO improved so I'm strongly incouraging) I'm a Mac- head having been thrown loudly protesting into a PC world here at work and don't really know my configuration here other than Windows XP.

Actually I'm having better luck- and seems like it is related more to saving the document and constantly redefining existing views and that seems to do the trick. It is working without going back directly into the publisher (those drawings automatically updating) but I'll try that too when it seems not to.

Now that I have you... I'm trying to stretch a bunch of lines simultaneously- first in one direction, then to the other- how do I do that? I select them all but only one will stretch at a time. I am positive this is an extraordinarily easy function that I am just not getting into my thick head.

Coming from a Vectorworks background and frustratingly using those techniques to no avail...

Thanks again

Tad

[Anonymous]

Tad,
Two ways of stretching multiple lines come to mind.
You can draw a line with a length and orientation
needed and then select the lines you want to stretch
then use the "Adjust" command.
A second way is to use the marque tool to stretch the lines.
It sounds like the second method is the one you should try.
Peter Devlin

[Anonymous]

Another version of the "Adjust" is with lines selected and Line tool active, CTRL-click on another line and they will all extend to (or trim/split at) that line. The advantage with this method is that they extend to a projection of the reference line including beyond the line, whereas the Adjust command only extends the lines that actually meet with the reference line.

Sounds confusing? See image below.