Details from an invalid PLC

[TomWaltz]

Last week, we had a user open a PLC file that was not valid. (She had changed her workspace, and the ID was not longer the same).

In the invalid PLC, she created nearly 2 dozen new details, and worked on them.

Is there any way to bring in the details as a group, instead of copy/pasting them in one by one?

[__archiben]

can you save both as PLNs and merge the invalid file into what was the PLP? bit dicey . . .

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[TomWaltz]

That would work for the plan/model changes, but "Merge" does not import detail windows or the 2D content drawn into section windows 😞

[Djordje]

TomWaltz wrote:
That would work for the plan/model changes, but "Merge" does not import detail windows or the 2D content drawn into section windows 😞

Forward merge does ...

[TomWaltz]

"Forward merge?"

Can you elaborate on that? I don't think I have heard of that one.

[Djordje]

TomWaltz wrote:
"Forward merge?"

Can you elaborate on that? I don't think I have heard of that one.

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=3791

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=973

[TomWaltz]

This sounds like an interesting procedure, but how does it actually copy details from one file to another? How would it manager to re-vailidate a PLC, or copy details from the invalidated one to a valid one?

It sounds more like a method for cleaning up corruption in a problem file.

[Anonymous]

Tom,

It sounds like the easiest thing would be to publish the details as modules, and then merge them into to main file.

[Aussie John]

Matthew wrote:
Tom,

It sounds like the easiest thing would be to publish the details as modules, and then merge them into to main file.

I agree. The trick is to catch the generating section and stop it before it can build. Then you can select all to pick up the added bits of information.

[TomWaltz]

It seems like the publishing, merging, unlinking, and replacing all the detail markers is still a lot of work.

I've long been pushing for the ability to import details from one file to another, and I think this is the first error-correcting method I have found for it. I always thought of it as a way to re-use data from previous projects.