topic Re: Referencing External Files in Collaboration with other software

Referencing External Files

Zdenko — Thu, 23 May 2024 15:53:13 GMT

good morning - looking for a bast practice/method to reference a file into my current design file to verify foundation data. not sure where a command allows me to bring it in as a trace reference? any suggestions from the community?

Operating system used: Mac Intel-based Sonoma 14.4.1

Re: Referencing External Files

Barry Kelly — Tue, 21 May 2024 00:55:45 GMT

You can't reference to an external file (only internal view points, views and layouts).

If the data has been saved as a PDF, you can place that PDF as a drawing and use that - you cn then reference that as a trace if you want to use that method (because it is now placed in your file).

Or you can use the 'Navigator Organiser' to copy layouts from another file into your working file.

You can then trace & reference those layouts.

Just make sure you name those imported layouts appropriately and keep them separate from other layouts, so you know they are from an external source.

Barry.

Re: Referencing External Files

Zdenko — Tue, 21 May 2024 16:42:17 GMT

thanks barry looked at nav. organizer and that will work. just need to spend some time with it...

Re: Referencing External Files

Tim Ball — Tue, 21 May 2024 17:29:19 GMT

I use external dwg files from survey companies a lot and find that if I drop them into a worksheet and save the worksheet as a view, it’s then easy to trace reference in

Re: Referencing External Files

Zdenko — Tue, 21 May 2024 18:02:52 GMT

thanks tim will have to keep that in mind the next go around...