Can't Save Section To DWG

[Anonymous]

I have had two users encounter this problem in the last two days on two different projects. They were saving building sections to DWG for sub-contractors. All of the sections save except for one. ArchiCAD would display an error message that said "Cannot write output file."

We tried saving to the Desktop, restarting ArchiCAD, and deleting the section marker and putting a new one in -- neither of these attempts worked.

Any ideas why this is happening?

[MMontgomery]

It's possible that there is a library part in the section that isn't converting correctly. You could try turning each layer off, seperately, and seeing if it is able to convert. This would at least tell you if it is a library part causing the problem and allow you to correct it.

Otherwise, in a pinch, you could copy the contents of the section with CTRL+A, CTRL+C then open an independent detail and press CTRL+V. This would create a less desirable 2D section, but should bypass any issues the DWG converter might be having.

[Anonymous]

Jay, maybe this simple steps can help you, this is what I do, first on the navigator, drag your file to the publisher window

[Anonymous]

view set publishing properties, to browse and name a new file and place it on the desktop (for example)

[Anonymous]

name a new folder, to desktop

[Anonymous]

publish

[Anonymous]

and go to your new document (publish)on your desktop, in this case and find your dwg file. If you need all at the same time, just select all, choose the extension, save as, and publish.

I hope this help you.


Regards,
David W

[TomWaltz]

Jay wrote:
I have had two users encounter this problem in the last two days on two different projects. They were saving building sections to DWG for sub-contractors. All of the sections save except for one. ArchiCAD would display an error message that said "Cannot write output file."

We tried saving to the Desktop, restarting ArchiCAD, and deleting the section marker and putting a new one in -- neither of these attempts worked.

Any ideas why this is happening?

Jay,

I've had that happen a lot. I have never been able to get it to work directly. The closest workaround was to publish out of Plotmaker (yuk!)