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Avoid Layer Visibility Changes in PlotMaker
Please be careful when saving layouts as DXF/DWG drawings:
the I/O engine discards changes made in the drawings' layer settings in PlotMaker.
Let's take an example:
A project file in ArchiCAD has three layers: A, B, C. Let's suppose the visibility of layers A and B is hidden.
Save as a pmk file. In PlotMaker, place the pmk on a layout, and select it. Now go to the layer settings dialog
and set the visibility of all layers to visible. These changes can be seen in the drawing after a rebuild.
Now save the layout as a DXF or DWG file. If you open this file in AutoCAD, the contents of the layers A and
B will be lost (both in Paperspace and in Modelsapce), although the layers will be there. The DXF/DWG I/O engine
discards changes made to the layer settings in PlotMaker. Workaround: To avoid annoying and redundant work, please,
if you want to export your layouts into DXF or DWG, always set the layer combinations in ArchiCAD, and do not change them later in PlotMaker.
Page last updated: Thursday, June 10, 2004
