https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Project-data-BIM/Template/m-p/697343#M15491 <P>are you on bimcloud? you can place views from file A onto layouts of file B using the organizer...<BR />this method does come with a caveat... updating them has been a PITA in the past.<BR />...<BR />other options I have tried in the past: put all like details onto separate stories, rather than detail or worksheet views. So in the detail file, you may have:</P> <P>-story 1: roof details<BR />-story 2: foundation details<BR />-story 3: interior trim details<BR />-etc.<BR />then, in your project files, you can place the detail file (either pln OR teamwork file) as a hotlink moduel - file &gt; external content &gt; place hotlink.&nbsp;<BR />you can be selective on which stories you place to the project files detail views to only bring in the details/type of details you need<BR />...<BR />you can also save out certain views as either .mod file. If you export the .mod, select the detail(s) you need from your det file, go to file &gt; external content &gt; save selection as module. this has an slight disadvantage from the previous workflow, that when you update a detail, you need to save over the original .mod then update it in the hotlink manager of the project file. But it does let you select only the details you need.<BR />...</P> <P>there used to be a way to save as a .pmk... this goes back to pre-ac 10 era archicad, but up until recently, I know some people were still using this workflow to draw details in a separate file from the working model file... I haven't used that workflow since... maybe 2005 or 2006; so I couldn't even tell you if it's even an option any more</P> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:18:33 GMT Patrick M 2026-03-26T00:18:33Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Project-data-BIM/Template/m-p/697340#M15490 <P>We have two main Archicad files(templates) which we use.</P><P>One we use for all our designing of the houses and one for all our details, cladding, foundation details etc</P><P>We would copy and paste the selected details from the details template over to our main template when we need to but we do this for every job</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I was wondering if there was a better way of doing this?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT face="courier new,courier" color="grey">Operating system used: <EM>Windows </EM></FONT></P> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:09:20 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Project-data-BIM/Template/m-p/697340#M15490 Scouse85 2026-03-26T00:09:20Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Project-data-BIM/Template/m-p/697343#M15491 <P>are you on bimcloud? you can place views from file A onto layouts of file B using the organizer...<BR />this method does come with a caveat... updating them has been a PITA in the past.<BR />...<BR />other options I have tried in the past: put all like details onto separate stories, rather than detail or worksheet views. So in the detail file, you may have:</P> <P>-story 1: roof details<BR />-story 2: foundation details<BR />-story 3: interior trim details<BR />-etc.<BR />then, in your project files, you can place the detail file (either pln OR teamwork file) as a hotlink moduel - file &gt; external content &gt; place hotlink.&nbsp;<BR />you can be selective on which stories you place to the project files detail views to only bring in the details/type of details you need<BR />...<BR />you can also save out certain views as either .mod file. If you export the .mod, select the detail(s) you need from your det file, go to file &gt; external content &gt; save selection as module. this has an slight disadvantage from the previous workflow, that when you update a detail, you need to save over the original .mod then update it in the hotlink manager of the project file. But it does let you select only the details you need.<BR />...</P> <P>there used to be a way to save as a .pmk... this goes back to pre-ac 10 era archicad, but up until recently, I know some people were still using this workflow to draw details in a separate file from the working model file... I haven't used that workflow since... maybe 2005 or 2006; so I couldn't even tell you if it's even an option any more</P> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:18:33 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Project-data-BIM/Template/m-p/697343#M15491 Patrick M 2026-03-26T00:18:33Z