topic Re: Question about working with Worksheets in Modeling

Question about working with Worksheets

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:13:05 GMT

I inserted an XREF into an Independent Worksheet within a Module file.
I left the MOD file...when I came back the Worksheet is gone.
Vanished...is this supposed to happen?
How do I get it to remain in place for further use?

Re: Question about working with Worksheets

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:31:23 GMT

Ledbetter, wrote:
I inserted an XREF into an Independent Worksheet within a Module file.
I left the MOD file...when I came back the Worksheet is gone.
Vanished...is this supposed to happen?
How do I get it to remain in place for further use?

Use a PLN file. Think of a MOD file as a saved clipboard. It does not contain views, etc etc... When you open a MOD, it merges itself with the settings for the last open project. It then appears that you are working on a complete project - and in fact you can save what you are doing as a PLN. But, if you save as a MOD, you are only saving the story information, or in the case of save-selected-as-module, the selected elements.

Karl

Re: Question about working with Worksheets

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:59:25 GMT

I probably should have mentioned that these MOD file are apartment units to be Hotlinked into a Building Plan PLN file.
Is using a PLN file going to adversely effect my ability to Hotlink these drawings into that Building Plan?

Re: Question about working with Worksheets

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:55:20 GMT

Ledbetter, wrote:
I probably should have mentioned that these MOD file are apartment units to be Hotlinked into a Building Plan PLN file.
Is using a PLN file going to adversely effect my ability to Hotlink these drawings into that Building Plan?

That's an appropriate use of MOD files. You can hotlink from PLN as well.

Given the original question - concerning an xrefed drawing in a worksheet - I believe you might want to examine using a PLN file and within that file create a Publisher set which publishes (saves) your apartment units as MOD files.

Rather than two pln files, I do all of this within one file, where there are specific views for the shared elements (common walls for a high-rise, common room layouts for hotel, etc) which are published as mod files which are hotlinked back into the file. Hotlinking back to the pln file in that case (vs publishing/saving mod files) is troublesome because you do not have control over which elements are hotlinked. The publish / update hotlinks cycle is pretty easy once the file and hotlinks are set up.

Others with more experience in this area probably have better ideas.

Cheers,
Karl

Re: Question about working with Worksheets

Laura Yanoviak — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:12:55 GMT

Karl wrote:
I believe you might want to examine using a PLN file and within that file create a Publisher set which publishes (saves) your apartment units as MOD files.

This is what we do; however, unlike Karl, we use a separate PLN file (so as not to "put all of our eggs in one basket", so-to-speak). Also, with Teamwork, sometimes it's just easier to use separate files, especially if you have a large team.

Re: Question about working with Worksheets

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:48:47 GMT

I cannot find a lot of information on the worksheets, so I am going to post here.

Is there a way to copy worksheets from one .pln file to another?
Sort of like a copy paste?

Thanks in advanced.

Re: Question about working with Worksheets

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:44:34 GMT

I think this is not possible to do directly.
However, you can create a new independent Worksheet in your target file, then copy everything in the source Worksheet in the source file and paste them in the target Worksheet in the target file.

Re: Question about working with Worksheets

Rafal SLEK — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:40:31 GMT

Josh wrote:
Is there a way to copy worksheets from one .pln file to another?
Sort of like a copy paste?

Do You mean this?:

Re: Question about working with Worksheets

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:43:15 GMT

YES!!

That is what I was trying to do with both the PLN files open, but was missing the drag and drop step.

Thank you Rafal!

Re: Question about working with Worksheets

vfrontiers — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:38:35 GMT

While you are showing this working for LAYOUTS, I don't believe it will CREATE a Worksheet from one file to another. In fact the Project Map is not even available on the left had side (or the right hand side for that matter).

Re: Question about working with Worksheets

Rafal SLEK — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:12:21 GMT

vfrontiers wrote:
While you are showing this working for LAYOUTS, I don't believe it will CREATE a Worksheet from one file to another.

I apologize for misunderstanding 🙂 (I was reading Worksheet but think Layout). This method is working only for Layouts and Views of course.
There is no other way for worksheet import than Merge command.

Re: Question about working with Worksheets

Erika Epstein — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:31:29 GMT

Save a view of the worksheet(s)

Re: Question about working with Worksheets

vfrontiers — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:38:15 GMT

Erika wrote:
Save a view of the worksheet(s)

Right, but it will be referencing the OTHER plan file and not the local one...(external reference)