General
• Planon only supports drawings with a building size less than 3,000 x 3,000 m (~ 10,000 x 10,000 ft). If parts of the drawing are outside of this area, they will be filtered out during CAD import. This is also true for block definitions with an origin outside this area.
• Only drawings saved in compatible AutoCAD versions and in .dwg format can be imported into Planon ProCenter. For information on which AutoCAD versions are supported by which Planon ProCenter version, refer to the Planon Supported Configurations document.
• The versions of Planon ProCenter (CAD Import) and the metadata version of the Connect for AutoCAD plug-in must be compatible in order to work together.
• The AutoCAD drawings should be present on a network share or the WebDAV location that can be addressed by both the server on which Planon ProCenter is located and the server on which the CAD Workbench is located.
• The drawings must contain their information in entities, such as polylines, blocks, block attributes, single/multi line text objects, or Connect for AutoCAD. These entities can exist in multiple layers or be present in drawings attached as Xref.
Each layer in an AutoCAD drawing can contain entities. Each entity will have impact on the size and complexity of the drawing. With regard to CAD Integrator, the following applies: the less entities, the better it is. A drawing with more than 15,000 entities may lead to serious performance problems and possibly to an unworkable situation in CAD Integrator. Therefore, we recommend to restrict the number of entities to a maximum of 15,000.• XREF drawings must be located in the same folder or subfolder as the main drawing referring to them. See CAD import XREF support for examples.
• Only data stored in the “Model space layout” can be imported.
The following layer names are no longer supported:◦ PLANON (used by Planon ProCenter Windows Client)
◦ Layers starting with: 'Planon mapping…..'
• Entities on frozen layers (which as a result are not visible in AutoCAD) are imported and will be converted into the CAD Integrator drawing (ORJ).
• The drawings must contain information of a single floor of a property.
• A polyline can represent a Space, Floor, or 'Fixed workspace'. It is recommended that you draw closed polylines in a such way that a single polyline is not used in two objects at the same time. For example, a single polyline should not be used to draw the boundary of both Space-1 and Space-2. Each space should have its own polylines.
• A drawing may only contain one net floor polyline and/or one gross floor polyline. Note: the net polyline should always fall within or coincide with the gross polyline. For non-StabiCAD drawings these floor polylines should be on different layers as well.
• It is not recommended to import old drawings while more recent drawings have already been imported as this may, in some cases, lead to different data. For instance, if during an import, a space is ended because its polyline is no longer in the drawing, importing the same drawing on an earlier date will not end the space on the earlier import date.
• There must be only one single space usage per space.
• If a block is explicitly made invisible in the AutoCAD drawing, the block is not imported into Planon ProCenter.
• The AUDIT command in AutoCAD is not supported, as the AUDIT command can corrupt the drawing. To clean the drawing, use the PURGE command.
Additional requirements for AutoCAD drawings created using StabiCAD
The following conditions must be fulfilled additionally, to import the StabiCAD drawings into the Planon ProCenter:
• Only the drawings saved in compatible StabiCAD versions are supported. For information on which StabiCAD versions are supported by which Planon ProCenter version, refer to the Planon Supported Configurations document.
• In contrast to the regular AutoCAD drawings, space and floor polylines are allowed to be on the same layer.