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A19 Solo: Importing a master layout into another pln file

Dennis Hellyar — Fri, 26 May 2023 00:26:10 GMT

I am struggling to import a master layout file from one pln file to another. The organiser top left box does not have the browse option therefore the common TW solution doesn't work. Is this a limitation of Solo or is there a workaround please?

Re: A19 Solo: Importing a master layout into another pln fil

Karl Ottenstein — Sun, 29 May 2016 17:29:04 GMT

There is so little info on Solo available for those of us who have never seen it, which is a shame since it has been rolled out in more countries. I wish there was a start-up setting for AC Professional that let us run in "Solo mode" to be able to help the Solo community more directly.

Lacking Teamwork and model Hotlinks in Solo, I am still surprised that Solo does not allow you to browse to another PLN file to at least place drawings into the current layout or to move layouts, masters etc as you want.

Does Solo allow you to open more than one instance / file at the same time as Pro does? If so, perhaps you can drag and drop the master from one file to the other?

If not, then perhaps you can at least copy/paste the master content from one Solo file to another? (Unfortunately the master sheet settings would have to be set up manually.)

Re: A19 Solo: Importing a master layout into another pln fil

Dennis Hellyar — Mon, 30 May 2016 09:05:18 GMT

You can open more than one A19 instance at a time. But it doesn't seem possible to drag a layout from one instance to another. Copy and paste not possible either.

Re: A19 Solo: Importing a master layout into another pln fil

Karl Ottenstein — Mon, 30 May 2016 14:20:09 GMT

Dennis wrote:
You can open more than one A19 instance at a time. But it doesn't seem possible to drag a layout from one instance to another. Copy and paste not possible either.

By copy I meant the content... On an open master select-all then copy. Are you saying that the clipboard is empty when you open or switch to the other file in order to paste into a new master?

Re: A19 Solo: Importing a master layout into another pln fil

Dennis Hellyar — Mon, 30 May 2016 21:09:15 GMT

Awesome! Success!! I copied and pasted the the content rather than the 'file' as such. I'm sure there are more hurdles ahead but at least this one is sorted. Many thanks!!!

Re: A19 Solo: Importing a master layout into another pln fil

Dennis Hellyar — Mon, 30 May 2016 21:09:19 GMT

Re: A19 Solo: Importing a master layout into another pln fil

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 31 May 2016 16:29:05 GMT

Glad that a content copy/paste worked. Thanks for posting back. 🙂

But, I hope someone who has Solo - or someone from Graphisoft - can report on a mechanism to move content from one file to another as in the full version. Building a Solo template with Layout (etc) content could be quite tedious otherwise.

Re: A19 Solo: Importing a master layout into another pln fil

Karl Griffith — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 16:41:21 GMT

I don't know of other options for moving content from one file to another in Solo, but I can observe - as a new user - that you can't Xref in Solo. That was a surprise. I guess 'Solo' means not only one user, but strictly one file.

I was able to merge files to set up a trace reference to a dwg file, but that's not what I wanted to do. Not having Xref is a real handicap...

Re: A19 Solo: Importing a master layout into another pln fil

Erwin Edel — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 12:06:16 GMT

Can you place the DWG as drawing?

Re: A19 Solo: Importing a master layout into another pln fil

Karl Griffith — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 16:45:59 GMT

I found out that a DWG can be dragged and dropped onto an independent worksheet to provide a static Xref. This provides the limited functionality I was looking for. This seems to work for image files and pdfs as well.

Basically, there is no File>External Content path in the menu structure, so all the functions in the full version available by that path do not exist, including hotlinked modules and xrefs.

Solo is not a limited version of AC19, but a completely different installation file.

Re: A19 Solo: Importing a master layout into another pln fil

Erwin Edel — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 07:19:29 GMT

Yes, drag and drop places them as a drawing in the full version. You can turn layers on and off by opening the drawing settings.

I actually like it more than XREF as it doesn't bring all the attributes from the DWG in to your project.

Re: A19 Solo: Importing a master layout into another pln fil

Karl Griffith — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:19:18 GMT

As an update to this thread, ArchiCAD 20 Solo now has an abbreviated "External Content" menu to make the limited external content functionality a little more obvious and accessible in Solo.

It does not have all the functionality of the full version, but that is not expected (you pay less, you get less). All the same, it is a nice addition to Solo.