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IMPORTING VIEWS INTO PLOTMAKER

Anonymous
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Traditionally our office continues to use PMK files to import views into Plotmaker, never having found BG Archicad very satisfactory.

However, I was recently at a seminar where the ease of creating views in Navigator was demonstrated, and importing these views into Plotmaker directly from a PLN file.

When I try this, I find that, although my view was created when 'zoomed in' to part of a drawing, when I import the view, the 'zoom' is lost and I get the whole of the drawing (just as if I had stored it as a PMK).

Is there a way to overcome this? (I thought that it wasn't happening during the demonstration). It seems to defeat the benefit of the stored view, and I find it takes a huge amount of time to crop and move the view into position.

Also, when I've dragged a view, and 'clicked' to place it - it still moves! (maybe because I 'clicked' when it was still regenerating). This is also very annoying. Would it not be possible to allow placement to occur before the regen is completed?
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Petros Ioannou
Contributor
Keith,
Search inside PlotMaker's Preferences there is an option to adjust the frame of a placed drawing at the zoom you have inside ArchiCAD.

Petros
ArchiCAD 22 4023 UKI FULL,
Archicad 21 6013 UKI FULL, ArchiCAD 20 8005 UKI FULL
iMac Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017
4.2 GHz Intel Core i7
32 GB 2400 MHz DDR4
Radeon Pro 580 8192 MB
Anonymous
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eucharisto polu, Petro.
Petros Ioannou
Contributor
ArchiCAD 22 4023 UKI FULL,
Archicad 21 6013 UKI FULL, ArchiCAD 20 8005 UKI FULL
iMac Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017
4.2 GHz Intel Core i7
32 GB 2400 MHz DDR4
Radeon Pro 580 8192 MB
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