topic Re: External drawing of a 3D Document in Documentation

External drawing of a 3D Document

cgrimley — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:03:52 GMT

So we did all of our wall types, window details, and many more standard details using the new 3D document, only to find out that 3D documents can't be placed as external drawing. javascript&colon;emoticon(':x')
I have a few ideas on a work around, but I am hoping that someone somewhere knows of an easy fix to get the drawings to be placed externally.
See the image attached, the 3D document drawings are shown as grayed out.

Re: External drawing of a 3D Document

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:15:40 GMT

This seems to be a bug in the Import dialog. (I never use that dialog, so never noticed this!) I'm reporting to GS now...

Things do work fine though! Just via a different dialog/method:

At the top left of Navigator or (better) Organizer, press the button and then click Browse to browse to the pln file with all of your detail views. That file's views will now be visible. Just drag and drop the 3DD views onto your layout. Works fine I think?

For some reason, the drag-and-dropped views (now drawings) were set for autoupdate, but I had to select them and manually refresh them to get the contents to be visible. Not sure what that was about...perhaps related to an update problem reported in a different thread yesterday by Raul...

Cheers,
Karl

Re: External drawing of a 3D Document

cgrimley — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:01:05 GMT

Thanks Karl, I've never placed drawings that way. Works great now.

Casey

Re: External drawing of a 3D Document

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:11:28 GMT

cgrimley wrote:
Thanks Karl, I've never placed drawings that way. Works great now.

You're welcome! Glad it worked ... and that you reported the problem so that GS can fix it.

Cheers,
Karl

Re: External drawing of a 3D Document

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:51:31 GMT

FYI - This bug has been fixed in the first AC 12 hotfix (build 2285).

Cheers,
Karl

Re: External drawing of a 3D Document

matthewjj — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:31:33 GMT

Not that it matters anymore since the update, but another work around was to to copy the placed 3D doc drawing from a layout in the original file to the layout in a new file.