Getting my plan in the right scale for exporting.

[Anonymous]

Hi. I'm trying to get my 2d plan, so I can add it in indesing with the sections and 3d perspective form Archicad.

What is the best way to export it so that it is the right scale as well as high quality.

I cant get the sections to be the right scale either.

Any tips?

I tried useing plotmaker, and the plan as a vector fil in plotmaker, but thats it

[TomWaltz]

Can InDesign read PLT files?

If so, you could plot to a PLT file in Plotmaker so you would have everything converted to lines and fills at scale.

[Anonymous]

It can't read plt files

What program do you use for doing presentations?

[TomWaltz]

We usually print PDFs or render to TIFF and assemble them in Keynote.

[Anonymous]

Oh..hmm..oh well I guess I need to find a program that can read vectors and make it in to a regular image in the right scale.

[Anonymous]

InDesign can read PDF's can't it? Why not save to PDF and import that way? Or as an EPS - although I don't think the vector information is maintained.

- Just had a look at the adobe website, and it says that Illustrator will import DWGs (and DXFs). - Not much use if you don't have illustrator though... and not sure what will happen to the scale.

Sorry I can't be more help - my office's presentation software extends to plotmaker so I can't even test anything out to see if I'm right.

[Haneef Tayob]

I use Adobe's Pagemaker which is similar to InDesign.
I also find that importing of pdf's to be most convenient, especially as you can set it up in plotmaker(or archicad) to publish to pdf, thereby ensuring that the pdf link in your InDesign document is the latest version.

Other vector formats which work are .emf & .wmf. I usually prefer to save them from plotmaker. Sometime drawings are too large for export to these 2 formats.

I've also copied & pasted directly from Plotmaker and Archicad. Sometimes pasting from .pmk's works better. The resulting paste in Pagemaker is a vector format, so if I crop or enlarge I don't loose quality. I use the same technique to quickly import vector quality images into Powerpoint.