- Fri Sep 19, 2014 2:20 pm
#233391
Hi!
This request is a response to the same dilemma a different user has been having a few years ago. I am working in Sweden as well, where regulations dictate that external doors, external windows, internal doors, and internal windows EACH must be on different layers in .dwg files (that's a total of 4 different layers). See this thread:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/vie ... &&start=10
At the moment there are 3 workarounds I know of, but neither would be beneficial for the company I work at (it would involve countless lost hours) :
1. Splitting each wall that contains a window/door in order to isolate the window/door and assigning different layers to the parent wall.
2. Going into the .dwg file and manually changing the layers line by line.
3. Assigning different pens to the different doors/windows and use "Create Layers according to Pen Numbers". We already assign autocad layers according to archicad layers so changing this would mean our company will have to rework all the settings from the ground up.
I am requesting feature in the dwg exporter to allow different layers to be assigned to windows based on the layer the parent wall is located on. Our company already uses different layers for internal/external walls according to Swedish regulations.
Basically, it would work just like the custom layer section under Attributes > Layers > Methods where you can export windows and doors each to their own layers. Except there would be a new parameter (or a new column in objects list) called "parent wall layer" or something like that with the option to choose from any layer you have plus the choice "all other layers", which would be the default setting.
A user would have to create multiple such window/door layer export definitions in order to refine which windows/doors go where or simply just use one layer conversion definition with "all other layers" marked.
I might as well extend this functionality to skylights (and parent roof relationships) and the various door/window marker tools.
This request is a response to the same dilemma a different user has been having a few years ago. I am working in Sweden as well, where regulations dictate that external doors, external windows, internal doors, and internal windows EACH must be on different layers in .dwg files (that's a total of 4 different layers). See this thread:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/vie ... &&start=10
At the moment there are 3 workarounds I know of, but neither would be beneficial for the company I work at (it would involve countless lost hours) :
1. Splitting each wall that contains a window/door in order to isolate the window/door and assigning different layers to the parent wall.
2. Going into the .dwg file and manually changing the layers line by line.
3. Assigning different pens to the different doors/windows and use "Create Layers according to Pen Numbers". We already assign autocad layers according to archicad layers so changing this would mean our company will have to rework all the settings from the ground up.
I am requesting feature in the dwg exporter to allow different layers to be assigned to windows based on the layer the parent wall is located on. Our company already uses different layers for internal/external walls according to Swedish regulations.
Basically, it would work just like the custom layer section under Attributes > Layers > Methods where you can export windows and doors each to their own layers. Except there would be a new parameter (or a new column in objects list) called "parent wall layer" or something like that with the option to choose from any layer you have plus the choice "all other layers", which would be the default setting.
A user would have to create multiple such window/door layer export definitions in order to refine which windows/doors go where or simply just use one layer conversion definition with "all other layers" marked.
I might as well extend this functionality to skylights (and parent roof relationships) and the various door/window marker tools.