topic Re: hotlinking multiple buildings in Project data & BIM

hotlinking multiple buildings

Ignacio Azpiazu — Fri, 26 May 2023 07:03:40 GMT

If you have as many variations as it sounds like you have there will be no site file floor plan cut plane height that will work for all and the only solution is to switch all walls in the building models to display the 'symbolic cut'. I keep them symbolic by default for precisely this reason.

Re: hotlinking multiple buildings

Thomas Holm — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:34:41 GMT

Save the buildings that don't behave as library objects (from the 3D window) and place them on the site.

Note that you have to re-save them when you change anything in the buildings that you want to be up to date in the site plan.

Re: hotlinking multiple buildings

Ignacio Azpiazu — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:42:45 GMT

tigger wrote:
I'm not so much concerned with how it looks in plan. Its my 3D views I need to be correct.

In the site file, select the hotlinked building story and ('Suspend Groups' unchecked) elevate it in the floor plan, section or 3D window to its correct height. You select the insertion story based on what you want to see on the same story in the site plans, and then you can elevate up and down as you please.

Re: hotlinking multiple buildings

Nick Schat — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:57:37 GMT

Ignacio wrote:
In the site file, select the hotlinked building story and ('Suspend Groups' unchecked) elevate it in the floor plan, section or 3D window to its correct height. You select the insertion story based on what you want to see on the same story in the site plans, and then you can elevate up and down as you please.

If you do the above and have the group active, select the story and go to File>External Content>Hotlink Module Settings and set the required elevation relative to your site file.
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