WYSIWYG

[Anonymous]

maybe it us, and maybe this is not the place to question this...but we find, we meaning me...short on meds today....that AC is not very WYSIWYG friendly...OR is there setting we are missing....

[Anonymous]

WYSIWYG friendly in what way?

[TomWaltz]

r wrote:
maybe it us, and maybe this is not the place to question this...but we find, we meaning me...short on meds today....that AC is not very WYSIWYG friendly...OR is there setting we are missing....

How do you mean " AC is not very WYSIWYG friendly"?

[Anonymous]

what does WYSIWYG stand for?

[Achille Pavlidis]

What You See Is What You Get

[TomWaltz]

jcude wrote:
what does WYSIWYG stand for?

"What You See Is What You Get"
pronounced "wizzy-wig"

[Karl Ottenstein]

r wrote:
maybe it us, and maybe this is not the place to question this...but we find, we meaning me...short on meds today....that AC is not very WYSIWYG friendly...OR is there setting we are missing....

Hmmm. Are you using saved Views in a View Set to do all of your work, and to link views into PlotMaker? And, your Views use both Layer and Display combinations?

If so, then you are potentially 100% WYSIWYG in AC (other than AutoText that will be filled in by PM: section numbers, page numbers, etc.)... or, if you change pen tables in PM, you are WYSIWYG other than final pen color/weight. But, in that case, your PM Layout is 100% WYSIWYG.

What isn't working for you?

Karl

[Anonymous]

sorry I haven't responded right away...I am trying to get an example of plotted set...but this will have to do...unless you want to visit me here in beautiful Camden...(we are moving thank god).....this is an image shot from AC...when I go to plot this out the line weights are not proportionate to what you see here...plotting full size; full size being 30x42...it's almost half...in fact if were to plot this half size, I get true WYSIWYG......but when I go full size...as I said it's not protionate...btw we are using HP 1055CM...
what I am going to try do...is plot Autocad, Microstation, and AC lines set at the same thinkness and see what happens....

[gerd]

perhaps you can make a screenshot of resulting pdf file or of a plotfile (opened in plotmaker again)

possible problems (if you don't get what you see) can be:
- different scales of plan in archicad and printing/plotting
- plotter with special pen table
- problem of the plotter
- usage of the same pen table inside plotmaker (different to pens defined in archicad)

when you make a plotfile, you can check, if the problems come from software or plotter

[Anonymous]

Just to double check... you are viewing it in true-weight mode in AC, correct?