Relink drawings in bulk

[SZSZ]

Hello, we insert a lot of PDF and DWG as drawings in our project files. It is common to move the whole project folder (where all the PDFs and DWGs are) to another path in the server. The drawings now appear as Missing. Everything makes sense. In older versions of Archicad (until Archicad 23) you where able to use de "folder relink" icon and relink all the missing drawings just by choosing the new root folder (where all the files are), and Archicad searched them inside that folder, even if they have differtent paths. It seems that this workflow is broken in Archicad versions 24, 25 and 26 as you have to choose manually each folder or file for every file to relink them. Before it was very easy to relink external drawings (PDFs, DWGs,...) in bulk, now it is a nightmare if you have large number of drawings to relink. Please make this procedure work again (or maybe I am doing something wrong). Thank you

[JayGarbarino]

I have wanted this functionality for some time.
We have an Energy Notes sheet the is just the PDF of the California Title 24 CF1-R "pasted" on the sheet.
We have it look to the CEC.PDF document that resides in the same folder as the project PLN file,

Setting it Relative or Absolute in the template file does not help.

There is not the option for "Read from.." and the "Link Drawing to..." requires the reselection of both the PDF and the associated page of the PDF.

If it is a 14 page PDF all 14 need to be re selected.

 

Does anyone have a solution?

[Barry Kelly]

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@JayGarbarino wrote:

Does anyone have a solution?

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No, unfortunately not.

At this stage, PDFs must be placed by selecting the PDF and then the individual page, as you mentioned.

So, if the link is broken, you have to establish that individual link again.

As they are the same PDF and it knows what pages you want, it would be nice if you could 'read from' to re-establish it link.

That might be a good wish if it is not there already.

Barry.