Plot Maker 9

[Anonymous]

Is there an easy way of changing Master Drawing from sheet 3X2 to 17x11

Basically I have made new master with a sheet 17X11 and imported drawing from Master 3x2 and the option strertch is not available


Please Help


Thanks

[Ben Odonnell]

Link,
you really have become the forum celeb

Good work mate.

Cheers.
Benny

[Link]

Ben said:

What if you save out a PMK and then edit, copy & paste from the PMK.

Would that work instead of having to go back into ArchiCAD?

You still need to resize it mate - how would you do that using this method?

Woody said:

Hey, Link; nice article in the February issue of "Envisions"

http://www.graphisoft.com/community/envisions/2005_02_link.html

Congratulations!

Thanks Woody. I noticed Erika congratulated me in the Events forum. I must thank her too. Dom & I organized that article when I met him at the ArchiCAD University in the UK last September, so it has been a while now! I really enjoyed it though and personally got a good laugh out of it. Dom's a deft editor let me tell you! Seriously, it was a real pleasure, although I love ArchiCAD and all it has given me, so it was always going to be.

Cheers,
Link.

[Ben Odonnell]

I was just thinking that you could edit directly in the PMK file.

You would then eliminate the problem with the text stuffing up when you copy and paste.

Cheers.
Ben

[Link]

Oh - well in my case I am already editing the elements directly on the Master (which is less of a maintenance issue for the CAD Template users later), and we still can't resize in PM, so I am back to square one.

Unless I am completely missing your point mate, which wouldn't be the first time.

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

Link wrote:

Oh - well in my case I am already editing the elements directly on the Master (which is less of a maintenance issue for the CAD Template users later), and we still can't resize in PM, so I am back to square one.

Link wrote:
I usually copy & paste into ArchiCAD and resize there. It's a bit of a pain, because curves and text spak out, but it's still the fastest way to resize IME.

So what am I missing here? Are you editing directly on the Master or are you copying to ArchiCAD and Resizing there?

Unless I'm mistaken (which I have been before on occasion ). If you paste the layout into ArchiCAD and Resize it there, when you repaste it into PlotMaker, the AutoText is no longer AutoText.

I certainly agree that Resize would be a good thing to have in PlotMaker but frankly, considering the number of times one would have to do this if templates were used, I'm not sure I think it would be worth the developers' efforts.

woodster

[Link]

Yes I am editing directly on the master, but when I am creating a smaller titleblock for a smaller sheet, I am copying into ArchiCAD, resizing there, and pasting back into PlotMaker.

This does play havoc with text. Autotext is lost - although you can simply enter the code in ArchiCAD and it will paste into PM okay.

It also messes with layers, line thickness, arc/circle resolution and of course pasting/placement is never where you want it to be.

This entire process is surely going to get easier!

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

So I think it's one of those things that just ain't easy

Woody

[Ben Odonnell]

Link wrote:
Yes I am editing directly on the master, but when I am creating a smaller titleblock for a smaller sheet, I am copying into ArchiCAD, resizing there, and pasting back into PlotMaker.

This does play havoc with text. Autotext is lost - although you can simply enter the code in ArchiCAD and it will paste into PM okay.

It also messes with layers, line thickness, arc/circle resolution and of course pasting/placement is never where you want it to be.

This entire process is surely going to get easier!

Cheers,
Link.

Sorry mate,
I was a little unclear before, what I mean is after you have fixed every thing in ArchiCAD save it out as a PMK, then you won't have the problem with your text, circles etc.

Then once back in PM you can open your PMK, copy & Paste. You have then solved your text, lines and circles problem.

Cheers.
Ben

[Ben Odonnell]

woodster wrote:
So I think it's one of those things that just ain't easy

Woody

That is an understatement.

Cheers.
Ben

[Link]

Then once back in PM you can open your PMK, copy & Paste. You have then solved your text, lines and circles problem.

Ben - that's still a great idea. Notch yourself up another beer.

Cheers,
Link.