Drawings in Model Views

Use the Drawing Tool to place Drawings into your project.

Drawings placed into Model views are external files (such as DWG, PDF files and image files). They cannot include ARCHICAD views.

Drawings can be placed into any model view except a 3D Window or a Schedule view.

Placing a Drawing into a model can be useful if, for example, you receive a standard roof structure detail drawing from a manufacturer in PDF format. You can place this PDF document as a Drawing into your Detail window, add your own alterations or markups as needed, then place it as a modified detail onto a Layout.

Similarly, an external DWG file can be placed as a Drawing into your model as a vectorial drawing. This is a simpler solution for accessing DWG files in ARCHICAD, as opposed to attaching the DWG file as an XREF.

If you place a DWG, DXF or DWF file as an ARCHICAD drawing, you have the option of showing or hiding the drawing contents based on the source file’s layers.

Images placed with the Drawing tool in a Model view can be preferable to placing images with the Figure tool, since such a Drawing retains its source file information and can be updated. You can customize the size, title and framing options for your drawings. (Figures, in contrast, do not have these features.)

Drawings placed into a model view (as opposed to onto a Layout) are scale-independent.

Place Drawing into Model window

1.Activate the Drawing Tool.

2.Do one of the following:

Click in the model window

use File > External Content > Place External Drawing

3.Browse for the desired file and click Open.

Note: If you are importing a multi-page PDF document, a dialog box prompts you to choose which of the pages you wish to place.

4.The Drawing is placed by the anchor point defined in Drawing Settings.

Delete Drawing

To delete a drawing, select it and delete it like any other ARCHICAD element. Note that deleting a drawing is not undoable EXCEPT if the active window is the same type (e.g. Floor Plan or Layout window) as the window which contained the deleted drawing.

Related Topics

Drawings in the Layout Book

Working with PDF Documents

Drawing Settings

Managing and Updating Placed Drawings

Embedded Layers

Drawing Frame