Miscellaneous (DXF/DWG Translation Setup)

These are options in the DXF/DWG Translation Setup dialog box.

These settings concern character conversion including the use of national characters not in the English alphabet, font substitution rules for missing specifications and binary DXF.

Replace Missing Fonts with: If you get a DXF/DWG file containing a style/font specification that does not exist in any of your style/font and font/font dictionaries, you can define a default font here.

Allow national characters in layer, linetype, block names: If the recipient AutoCAD works in the same national environment as your ARCHICAD, you can check this checkbox.

Write binary DXF: This compressed version of DXF takes up about half the space of the text DXF format.

Note: if you really want the data to be compact, it is suggested that you write to DWG format.

Convert Splines into Polylines: Check this box to convert Splines into Polylines in ARCHICAD. ARCHICAD will approximate the AutoCAD Spline using a series of connected straight line segments (that is, a Polyline). This may be useful when in some rare cases, the converted ARCHICAD Spline still looks a bit different from its AutoCAD counterpart.

If you leave this box unchecked, AutoCAD Splines are converted into ARCHICAD Splines.

Replace Missing Renovation Status with: Choose a Renovation status in ARCHICAD for imported elements that do not have an assigned renovation status.