I am a new user of ArchiCad and working through my second project to Planning / CD's.
I received a CAD file with a .dwg base from a client that was originally produced in Vectorworks (version unknown). It was translated / saved to .dwg to be used by others. Here is the problem - when I merge the file into AC it comes in as an unexplodable block rather than individual items. I have tried in AutoCad (recovering user) to thin out the file so that all issues that I can think of are resolved prior to merging the information into my working AC file.
I created a translator for site plans that should work. The check box that allow it to be brought in as a block in not checked.
I have posed this question to my local ArchiCad technical support person and he doesn't understand why it is doing this.
Tom, thank sfor the information. I will try this if not I will look further into it. I was able to make it work a few weeks ago. Then it was linked to hatching in AutoCad. I removed all of the hathcing and it then worked. I had to make some adjustments to the site plan so i thought that it would be easier to just clear the drawing and re-merge the information. Then the problem showed up again.
