ArchiCAD 10 Layout Drawing Frames

[jzarmin]

Hello out there,

We have been using ArchiCAD 10 on MAC's for about a month or so and came up with a question. When using model views within the Layout pages, is there a way to stretch the drawing frame of the model view without stretching the scale of the model view? In Plotmaker, you could stretch the frame independent of the ArchiCAD view or PMK view (thus the scale of the view wasn't affected) and you could also drag the view around independant of the frame (if you wanted to frame/show a different section of a floorplan, for example).

My impression now is that the drawing frame is no longer independant of the inserted view and that in order to do any of the above one must save a new view and then insert it into the Layout to replace the old one.

Is there a way (a preference maybe?) that allows the old Plotmaker frame flexibility?
Thank you for any insight.

Joe
San Francisco

[Anonymous]

Joe,
Are the images placed in your layouts created with the figure tool
as bitmap images or are they drawing tool elements ?
Figure tool images rescale when stretched.
Drawing tool images do not rescale the drawing when the frame is stretched
and behave more like .PMKs.
Peter Devlin

[Link]

The functionality has changed since PM9 (eg. the Set Polygon as Drawing Frame command no longer exists), but you can still change a drawing's frame without affecting the scale.

Drawings can be editied like any polygonal shape in ArchiCAD, using the pet palette. Just try stretching an edge instead of a corner.

As a side note, schedules and indexes can be restructured using their corner nodes, which is pretty handy (if you can make them stick).

Cheers,
Link.

[Barry Kelly]

Joe,
Click on a corner node and use the pet palette - you have all the options you need.
Clicking on the edge of the frame gives you other options in the pet palette as does clicking inside the frame.
Barry.

[jzarmin]

Yes, you are all correct.

Thanks!

Joe