placing drawing on Layout

[Anonymous]

Excuse me for asking a redundant question that I know has been asked before (but I cannot find the answer): how does one place a captured view from one Archicad file into a layout of a different file--like saving Plotmaker files from several drawings and putting them together on one layout?

I MUST be totally overlooking the answer in the help and printed manual, and/or searching ArchiTalk by the wrong terms.

Thanks,

rip

[__archiben]

Rip wrote:
... how does one place a captured view from one Archicad file into a layout of a different file--like saving Plotmaker files from several drawings and putting them together on one layout?

Place Drawing>

choose 'An External Source', navigate to the archicad file that contains the view and pick it from the list . . .

HTH
~/archiben

[Anonymous]

I can't find the "Place Drawings" menu item. As I said, I must be looking right at it and not seeing....

[TomWaltz]

Rip wrote:
I can't find the "Place Drawings" menu item. As I said, I must be looking right at it and not seeing....

There's not a command to click. You open the layout you want to place the Drawing on, then drag the Drawing from your Navigator into the Layout.

[Anonymous]

There is no Place Drawings Menu.

Procedure:

File
External Content
Place External Drawing
- locate drawing to be placed on sheet in explorer/finder
- ArchCAD will show a navigator with all the defined viewsets(if any) of the chosen file
Select Drawing
Place drawing on sheet.
Rinse and repeat.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Mark! Just tried that and as soon as it stops rinsing, I will have it!

Just beware not to use hot water on shrinkable items!!!

BTW:

It must be very early morning in S.A., no?

[Anonymous]

Pah! What is time to an architect?

(actually not sure what time I posted, but think it was mid morning)

[__archiben]

Rip wrote:
I can't find the "Place Drawings" menu item. As I said, I must be looking right at it and not seeing....

or you could right-click on any blank area in the layout. for external content i find that a much faster and easier way of getting to the file/view that i need. the reason i didn't give you the full menu path to the 'Place External Drawing...' command is because i've customised my WE so much that i've forgotten where the default command resides. i've made a 'Layout' menu for all layouting commands . . .

cheers
~/archiben

[Anonymous]

because i've customised my WE so much that i've forgotten where the default command resides.

Ok, that IS customised!


are you sure you're still working in ArchiCAD?

but yes, I find going back to ArchiCAD standard setup is difficult without all my shortcuts -I've not yet ventured into the rearranging of menus yet(there be dragons!)

[__archiben]

Mark wrote:
... I've not yet ventured into the rearranging of menus yet(there be dragons!)

if you're interested, andy has a couple of WE setups on his website here. one of them is based on my menus . . .

~/archiben