Patricia, Thanks for the Ctrl C Ctrl V, never gave that a thought. Ok, so I did this, turn on 1st floor, plan view only, box everything showing which is the walls, doors, windows. Do Ctrl C, open new file and paste, you get the walls, windows, doors, electrical and plumbing. Now do a export to .dwg or .dxf and now all you get is walls, windows, doors. Is a lot of work to export, but a work around. It also appears that if you turn all layers on and export that, that hvac, detail, deck, roof, landscape and plumbing don't export at all. I also noticed that when you copy and paste everything to a new file that it doesn't take everything, like object items. I'm done for the night, more work tomorrow Thanks Dave

I have been trying to export complete plans. I can get the layers copied but the roof plans just don't seem to want to go. I select all then go to the floor plan and roof and only the floor plan and one section of roof go. Select all just dosen't seem to select all. What did I miss? Thanks for your help. Diver

Hi, Did what you suggested for exporting the roof plan in dxf format; however, received message (2x) "The wall is not long enough to fit all of the attachments, requires one or more windows, doors, or electrical/plumbing fixtures to be removed." After I hit "OK" twice, I get the export menu and select Autocad 2000 version. The export appears to go okay. Next, when "importing" the file I just exported from A3000 into Autocad, only a portion of the roof plan appears...the floor plan appears to make it okay. Suggestions? Thanks! Daryl

Hi John Bandel,

To export your plans from Punch AS 3000 you have several options

- Export your plan as DXF or DWG. (Power tools = Export DXF /DWG)
- Print the plan, scan it, and save it as *.jpg, *.bmp, etc.
- Visualize your plan, make a screen shot: Print Screen-->Go to MS Paint-->Paste--> Trim the image--> Save as *.jpg, *.bmp, etc.
- If you are an Adobe user (other than free software), you probably have the Acrobat writer installed as a Printer option of your computer. In Punch, you can save the plan as a PDF file . (Print to fit page-->print to file-->myplan.pdf).
You can open this document with Adobe Acrobat or Photoshop (and other programs). Use File-->open-->myplan.pdf or import the image Import-->PDF image-->myplan.pdf

However, notice that these files are 2D files. Punch does not export 3D DXF. The only format you can export as a 3D file, is as *.VRML.

You can use a combined approach with DXF plans and an AVI movie or BMP images

Let us know if you need more help

Patricia

Hi Eebbee,

You are welcome to e-mail me your MLP file and I will check it

Regards

Patricia

Hi martinradcock,

Try this
Go to your Control Panel, then to your Language Settings. The default language must be English (United States).

If the Language Settings are OK, send me your Punch file with the description of the problem and I'll check it. Please, send a zip file

Patricia

Hi adolphsmith

First, let me tell you that we (all the people answering questions at the Forum) are volunteers. As you can check, we answer questions within hours, so I don't see the reason for the tone of your post and your sentence "don't dance around the question with all the other export options available"
Did you ever post a question and received a "dancing answer"?
In addition, search for past answers in this Forum is an option too, check these past messages
http://forums.punchsoftware.com/WebX?14@@.ef98319/18
http://forums.punchsoftware.com/WebX?14@@.faac306/33
http://forums.punchsoftware.com/WebX?14@@.faa6758/0

Hope this helps

Patricia

Hi mfournet,

I am assuming you have Adobe PDF writer installed in your computer, right?
If so, follow these steps
- Select a floor-> view working floor only
- File--> Print to scale / Print to page--> Printing in color (yes/no)--> Select PDF writer printer--> Properties--> Paper Custom Size= XX"x ZZ" (the size to fit the plan)--> Print
See the picture attached

Lets us know if you need additional help

Patricia