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External drawing of a 3D Document

cgrimley
Contributor
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: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.

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Casey Grimley
AC24
iMac Pro (2017) - macOS 10.14.6- 3.2GHz Intel Xeon W - 32GB RAM - Radeon Pro Vega 56 8GB
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Karl Ottenstein
Moderator
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
One of the forum moderators
AC 28 USA and earlier   â€¢   macOS Sequoia 15.2, MacBook Pro M2 Max 12CPU/30GPU cores, 32GB
cgrimley
Contributor
Thanks Karl, I've never placed drawings that way. Works great now.

Casey
Casey Grimley
AC24
iMac Pro (2017) - macOS 10.14.6- 3.2GHz Intel Xeon W - 32GB RAM - Radeon Pro Vega 56 8GB
Karl Ottenstein
Moderator
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
One of the forum moderators
AC 28 USA and earlier   â€¢   macOS Sequoia 15.2, MacBook Pro M2 Max 12CPU/30GPU cores, 32GB
Karl Ottenstein
Moderator
FYI - This bug has been fixed in the first AC 12 hotfix (build 2285).

Cheers,
Karl
One of the forum moderators
AC 28 USA and earlier   â€¢   macOS Sequoia 15.2, MacBook Pro M2 Max 12CPU/30GPU cores, 32GB
matthewjj
Newcomer
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.
matt johnson
archicad since 2004
imac 27, 4.2 GHz Intel i7, 16 GB RAM, radeon 575 4 GB, macOS 10.14.6
imac, 4.0ghz i7, 16gb ram, Radeon M9 390 2GB, OS X El Capitan