topic Re: No more Read from... when linking several drawings to fo in Documentation

No more Read from... when linking several drawings to folder

Chadi SAROUFIM — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:57:26 GMT

What happened to the "Read from..." when linking several autocad drawings to a folder. This option does not exist anymore in archicad 17?!

In the drawings manager, we used to select several autocad drawings placed on different layouts, right click we had the option of read from, now we have to link each file by itself one by one...

Please help...

Re: No more Read from... when linking several drawings to fo

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 18:07:18 GMT

Are you not seeing this icon of the link+folder in the upper left hand corner?

I don't have DWG's selected so maybe it is a specific problem to that, but otherwise it still seems to work.

Re: No more Read from... when linking several drawings to fo

Chadi SAROUFIM — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:47:33 GMT

This icon is not showing, at least in the international version I have.
This is becoming really annoying.

Re: No more Read from... when linking several drawings to fo

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:07:49 GMT

Chadi wrote:
This icon is not showing, at least in the international version I have.

It looks ok here (AC 17 INT).

Re: No more Read from... when linking several drawings to fo

Chadi SAROUFIM — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:21:34 GMT

Nope it should have the yellow folder icon, you have the same issue.

Re: No more Read from... when linking several drawings to fo

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:28:38 GMT

Chadi wrote:
Nope it should have the yellow folder icon

I think it was because I had only one dwg file linked. If there are more selected, that icon changes.

Re: No more Read from... when linking several drawings to fo

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 12:32:42 GMT

Yes, you need to have more than one drawings selected with an external source (like a PDF or DWG file). Then you can specify a folder for all of them to be read from. If you have only one item selected, you can simply select the source file, no need to select a folder.
I tried it in my AC17 copy and I have the folder icon when more than one such file is selected.

Re: No more Read from... when linking several drawings to fo

Chadi SAROUFIM — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 13:47:29 GMT

The examples you have showed are for solo projects.
The problem I am facing is in the teamwork projects, even if I have reserved all of the project the folder icon does not show, on the contrary the read from icon becomes grey when I select several linked files in the drawings manager.

Re: No more Read from... when linking several drawings to fo

Eduardo Rolon — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:30:43 GMT

I can confirm that for teamwork projects the Folder does not appear to link either PDFs or DWGs you have to go one by one.

Re: No more Read from... when linking several drawings to fo

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:33:49 GMT

Then this is something I will need to report to Graphisoft. Will do so.

Re: No more Read from... when linking several drawings to fo

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 00:20:01 GMT

I don't know if this helps, but if you have a group of files selected and any one of them is (or was) in a different folder from the others the yellow icon will not show. It is quite tedious to review every single one, so test this by selecting only two files that you know for a fact have the same origin source folder.

Re: No more Read from... when linking several drawings to fo

Eduardo Rolon — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:25:11 GMT

Having them in the same folder does not work in TW. It does not appear even though it is the same file.

Re: No more Read from... when linking several drawings to fo

Eduardo Rolon — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:26:54 GMT

Link off with different files in the same folder (see previous post image)