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?

[Anonymous]

TomWaltz wrote:
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.

I don't see why the unlinking and replacement are necessary. You can set the layers of the views in the invalid draft to carry just the data you need (I assume the details are still linked to the source view or this would be no issue at all) then you can delete the old data and merge the new. I'm not sure this is that much less work than the copy/paste approach though.

I agree that we need better ways to manage, import, export catalog and reuse details (and other stuff). Lets hope this improves in the next version.