https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Structural-DWG-or-PDF-brought-into-the-model-file-as-Wrksht/m-p/218589#M27874 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><T>So....working on a large custom home.<BR /> The structural engineer has sent me the DWG's and the PDFs for his design.<BR /> What's the best approach to using his (the structural engineers) information so I can accurately create/via objects the framing plan (steel columns, steel beams, PSL wood members, wood posts 6x6) etc...into my model?<BR /> <BR /> Do I create a worksheet, hotlink his DWG or....?<BR /> Do I simply use his PDFs as rough backgrounds for locations of his structure?<BR /> And if I bring in his DWG, wont that add to the layers on my model?</T></DIV> Mon, 27 Oct 2014 23:55:50 GMT rob2218 2014-10-27T23:55:50Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Structural-DWG-or-PDF-brought-into-the-model-file-as-Wrksht/m-p/218589#M27874 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><T>So....working on a large custom home.<BR /> The structural engineer has sent me the DWG's and the PDFs for his design.<BR /> What's the best approach to using his (the structural engineers) information so I can accurately create/via objects the framing plan (steel columns, steel beams, PSL wood members, wood posts 6x6) etc...into my model?<BR /> <BR /> Do I create a worksheet, hotlink his DWG or....?<BR /> Do I simply use his PDFs as rough backgrounds for locations of his structure?<BR /> And if I bring in his DWG, wont that add to the layers on my model?</T></DIV> Mon, 27 Oct 2014 23:55:50 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Structural-DWG-or-PDF-brought-into-the-model-file-as-Wrksht/m-p/218589#M27874 rob2218 2014-10-27T23:55:50Z