conversion problem

[Anonymous]

Hi all ! Quite new to this forum, and in fact, i'm here to help a friend.

She studies architecture, and works on AutoCad 8 at home.
But her school only has a 7 version.
The problem is that she needs to use the shool's printer to get her projects printed.
You guess the problem then

Is there anykind of add-on, patch, or a simple viewer that could help her print out a 8 version file, on a machine that uses a 7 version ?

she has worked a whole week on her project, and she has to give it to her teacher on wednesday.

Txs in advance to all

Fred

[Eduardo Rolon]

If she is printing from ArchiCAD then she can save to ArchiCAD 7. If she is using Plotmaker to print then it is easier to create a PDF and then take that to school and print using Acrobat Reader (which is Free)

[Anonymous]

Txs for the tip.
But, when she's saving a plan in plotmaker in a pdf format, it creates 16 pages instead of a single page document.

Any tip ?

Fred

[Eduardo Rolon]

I'm guessing since I don't know which OS is she using, but verify the page set up settings, that error usually happens when you have a layout size that is bigger than the page size that you are using for printing. Play around with the page margins to get them to fit

[Anonymous]

Gracias y mas amigo !

I'll tell her to do that and ... we'll see

By the way, I've found 2 other ways to solve that kind of problem in the forum.
If you want to check them for your information, I'll hope my searching will help

To convert an 8 version file into a 7 version file :
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=1097

to convert in plotmaker a plan into an EPS file to print it later in Photoshop, or Illsutrator :
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=459


Adios !

Fred

[Eduardo Rolon]

Por nada