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What's covered • • • • • • • • • • Files saved from ARCHICAD in 2D formats (PDF, DWG, DWF) can be unusually large because of fill and line types used in the drawing. And explode in DWG and PDF – one line in archicad can break up to thousands or millions of small lines. Typical examples of dense fill or line patterns that create large PDFs and DWGs are the gravel fill and the thick dashed line. As mentioned above, symbol fills play an important role in PDF file size. Below is simple house without fills.

The PDF file size is 108kb. The PDF file opens instantaneously on most modern computers. Here is the same house with an optimized fill. The PDF file size is 218 Kb and opens in under 2 seconds. Here is the same house with standard fills and lines.

Its file size is 435 kb and the PDF file opens in 4 seconds. Here is the same house with similar fill and nicer story lines. The PDF file size is 1235 kb and it opens in 17 seconds. Panning on this file in the Adobe viewer is slow and printing is starting to get problematic. Did you notice the subtle changes in the roof hatching? How about the cool story line type in the last drawing? There were no tricks.

Of courseI have the apple keyboard but it doesnt have a print screen button, any ideas? Is there another possible keybaord combination that does the same thing? By assembling I was referring to making all the parts - PDF, Jpeg etc as each has it's place in the final presentation. In addition there may be. The latest Tweets from Laszlo Nagy (@laszlonagy). ARCHICAD guy, ARCHICAD-TALK Moderator/Site Admin, I tweet links to ARCHICAD tips/useful info. Budapest, Hungary.

The PDF was set to print in A3 format and the the above pictures show the tiles at 125% of their printed size. The overly detailed symbol fill in the last picture is source of the PDF size and its resultant slowness to open.

The costs of the symbol fills in the roof are the following: • Roof 1: 92 kb • Roof 2: 309 kb • Roof 3: 955 kb story lines in third drawing add 154 kb (more bytes than the original PDF file!) Settings to be aware of The first ominous check box: With that box checked, the Vectorial Hatching setting becomes important for all of the materials in your section. To check the material of the roof open the Roof Selection Settings. The icon the arrow points to notifies the user the “Roof-Tile French Red” has a vectorial hatch. If the vectorial hatch has a lot of lines and the hatch template is repeated many times, the PDF file size will reflect the increase in lines. The Discovery Process Take a look at the menu points to visit to discover the effects of vectorial fill on PDF file size.

Material settings So “Roof Tile 08” is the vectorial hatch for “Roof-Tile French Red”. The Three Different Vectorial Hatches Please note the visual effects amongst the three are small.

There are performance reasons for deciding which to use. • Roof Tile 08 1 the PDF file opens under 2 seconds • Roof Tile 08 the PDF file opens under 4 seconds • Roof Tile 08 2 the PDF file opens in 12 seconds or more Here “Roof Tile 08” fill type settings is open. Note the “Copy” and “Paste” buttons are highlighted. By pressing the copy button, then closing the dialog, a “CTRL-V” can be used on the plan to paste the vectorial pattern. Hence the three vectorial patterns. Fast Okay Awful The first pattern has less line segments than the original fill and no arc like the last. The original vectorial fill had 20 line segments used to imitate the half circle.

The half circle was changed to a “V”. Note that although the shape is far from being a half circle, the end appearance is pretty much the same. The last pattern also has 5 elements, but one element is an arc.

The arc causes significant performance problems with the final result. Scale considerations If you have clients that take a microscope to your drawings you might consider using arcs. The PDF this pattern produces when enlarged to 5464% still presents an arc. But for all purposes, a simplified pattern (with a few line segments replacing the the arch) will do.

Symbol Fills can help illustrate your work, but you should be aware of drawbacks that excessive detail may bring. Symbol Lines Here is the line type used in the last slow drawing above.

The three story lines added more bytes to the drawing than the original drawing had. From the dialog the line doesn’t look that bad, but copy out the pattern using “Copy line components”, close the dialog, and paste it on the plan, it will become clear that line abuse is the culprit.

108 lines all together. It shows nicely with various scales (it appears thick at all zoom levels even when “True Line Weight” display option is turned OFF), but the trick probably isn’t worth it. (Lines were used, since fills will not copy/paste back into Line Types).

Inside the ArchiCAD environment PhotoRendering Settings dialog is the common place of the render parameters. You can open this dialog from the 3D Visualization palette or from the menu Document >Creative Imaging >PhotoRendering Settings. Into the ArchiCAD plugin we integrated nearly all the available Maxwell parameters. It means you don’t have to go to Maxwell Studio to finalize your scene settings you can do it directly inside ArchiCAD. This page describes all the different parameters the ArchiCAD plugin adds to the UI. All Maxwell parameters are accessible from PhotoRendering Settings panel once Maxwell rendering engine is the active engine. Please make sure Maxwell Render Engine is the current ArchiCAD render engine! Craftsman Powder Coat System Manual on this page.

General Settings and Output From here you can control the basic render settings such as specify the output, render time, sampling level etc. Please see the page for the Maxwell Render documentation for details on these parameters as they have exactly the same functionality.

Specific settings to the ArchiCAD plugin • Export Directory: Select the folder location of Maxwell generated files (mxs, mxi, jpg.) • Scene name: Name of the MXS file the plugin generates. • Protect Geometry: Enable this option to protect the exported geometry so that it cannot be re-exported from Maxwell Studio in OBJ format.

• Geometry Scale: You can scale up or down the ArchiCAD geometries during the export process. Value 1.0 means the exported items will have the same size what they have in ArchiCAD. Value 2.0 meas scale up by 2 and 0.001 is the same as 1:1000. • Override Material: This option is a more flexible version of the previous foam material feature. Renders with simplified material setup can be very useful to study shadows and light.

It has three modes: • Disabled: This is the default mode, the plugin doesn't apply overwrite material. • All: It is the same as the Override Material setting in Studio, all the geometries are rendered with the same override material. You can choose override material if you click on the. • Opaque: All materials are assigned the chosen overwrite material except transparent materials, which keep their glass materials. • Command Line: Additional command line parameters of Maxwell render (MXCL) can be specified here. Please see the page for more details. Rare Drum Breaks Raritan. • Smoothing Angle: With this parameter you have advanced control about how the plugin exports smooth polygons.

If the angle between adjacent polygons is smaller or equal to this angle, they will be smoothed. For white materials RGB 225,225,225 is usually a good choice. • Radiance multiplier: This parameter is a global multiplier for automatically converted AC materials. In case the AC material has emitter property, plugin multiplies the power of the automatically calculated emitter component with this value. • Export Light: In ArchiCAD Lamp objects can have light components.

These light components are not geometries, only definitions of virtual light models. Plugin converts these virtual lights to simple geometries for Maxwell with emitter materials applied on them. In case you don't want to export these, just turn off this parameters. SimuLens For information on using these settings please see the chapter in the Maxwell documentation.

Channels Layers For information on using these settings please see the chapter in the Maxwell documentation. Environment Inside the Environment tab you can find the same environment parameters what you have in Maxwell Studio. You can choose between Sky Dome and Physical Sky modes or you can light your scene with HDRI images in Image Based mode. In case FIRE is active you can find the desired environment effect very fast. For information on using these settings please see the pages in the Maxwell documentation.

Camera parameters For details on the Maxwell camera parameters please see the chapter of the Maxwell documentation. Unique parameters of the plugin • Lens Type: Set the type of the Maxwell camera lens. In default mode 'by ArchiCAD' the plugin converts the ArchiCAD camera settings automatically. This is true for parallel and axonometric projections too. In case of axonometry view please keep in mind that Maxwell can't convert the view in case the spatial axises are not perpendicular or not equally scaled! In Maxwell V3 it is possible to use other lens types too, you can select the desired type from the drop-down list.

• Autofocus: Normally plugin reads the focus distance of the ArchiCAD camera. It can be difficult to set the proper focus distance with the normal ArchiCAD tool, but with this option Maxwell will automatically set the focus distance so the first object that hits the camera line will be in focus.

• Focus Distance: Manual focus distance of the exported ArchiCAD camera. • Resolution: The plugin can set the resolution of the rendered image according to: • ArchiCAD 3D window size - choose this one if you want to see exactly the same camera setup what you see inside the 3D window.

(To be sure you will see exactly the same, keep the Film fit parameter ON.) • Render Size - in this mode the output image size comes from the ArchiCAD render size values. You can find the render width and height values at the top of the PhotoRendering Settings dialog below the Engine parameter. • Film fit: Keep this flag ON if you want the plugin the set the film width/height values automatically (proportional to the render image dimension).