managing the working planes from the Archicad model

[Anonymous]

I work with archiCad 6.5 for some years, and still fill confused with managing the working planes drawings. should i arrange all my work through the plot maker by orggnaizing the layout? or make new 2D drawings using the plot command from archicad??
the files are Huge and make the work very slowly. i fill waiting to the computer all the time, although i have quiet a strong computer.
I would be very thankful to get some advises,
Batsheva.

[Djordje]

batsheva wrote:
I work with archiCad 6.5 for some years, and still fill confused with managing the working planes drawings. should i arrange all my work through the plot maker by orggnaizing the layout? or make new 2D drawings using the plot command from archicad??
the files are Huge and make the work very slowly. i fill waiting to the computer all the time, although i have quiet a strong computer.
I would be very thankful to get some advises,
Batsheva.

There are no working planes; just the floors of our building.

So, whatever is to be found on the foundation plan, should be there; ground floor plan, there; etc. Each FLOOR of the building, with its appropriate level relative ot the project zero, is what should be on the relevant storey.

The final output - layouts - should be handled with PlotMaker. If you are still on 6.5, do yourself a huge favour and upgrade to 9; the view management is incredibly increasing the productivity.

Is there no people around you who know about ArchiCAD? It seems to me that you went through a quite painful trial and error procedure, and that half an hour with someone who has been there and done that would do you a world of good!

Keep on asking ...

[Anonymous]

batsheva wrote:
I work with archiCad 6.5 for some years, and still fill confused with managing the working planes drawings. should i arrange all my work through the plot maker by orggnaizing the layout? or make new 2D drawings using the plot command from archicad??

If I understand you correctly you are using the 'stories' as new views for architectural / electrical / finishes information and therefore duplicating walls on several stories. This will make the file very large & slow.

The stories ('storey settings') should model the vertical form of the building. The different plans should be generated by turning on and off specific layers keeping the 'walls' layer on. These differnet groups of layers are recoreded as 'layer combinations' in the 'layer settings' window. You then export a PMK for each layer combination for use in Plotmaker.

As advised above, V9 handles this much better. It has only one Layout Book' instead of multiple Layout files. It reads the AC file with its 'Viewsets' ('Layer Combinations' + Display information) directly. It also automatically allocates sheet numbers for sheets and detail references. - a wonderfull time saver.

I hope this is what you were asking!