Splitting Large Files

[Anonymous]

Hello again,

Does anyone know how to speed up the updating of drawings on layouts, when the layouts are split from the main model file?

In our experience it can take hours for sections and elevations to update and sometimes the drawings become 'unlinked'

We have two offices, one located in Australia and the other located in Bali, with all of the drafting work being done in Bali, and with that, all of the Teamwork files located on the server in Bali.

Now Bali does not have a very good selection of internet providers/plans, and internet can be expensive - a dedicated 1MB plan costing Rp10,000,000/$US1,115 per month. We run on a 512KB plan.

We want to be able to have the project architects signing into Teamwork projects from Australia for reviews etc, but Teamwork can be painfully slow with such a small internet connection.

So we want to look into reducing our file sizes by as much as possible to help speed up the process, splitting the files into 2 parts could help a lot.

Thanks,

Mike

[Erwin Edel]

With larger project I ussually do one or both of these things:
1. Make my sections and elevations update manually (in the section / elevation settings)
2. publish all my views to PMK's and link those in a separate layoutbook .pln (setup dedicated publisher sets for this and be sure to keep a tidy folder structure where things are published, so anyone new to the project can make sense of it all).

This saves a lot of time waiting for auto-updates. PMK filesizes are super small, so it would help with bandwith as well, I suppose.

Recently (as in ArchiCAD13 recently) I've been having problems with my schedules published as PMK though and have had to resort to linking directly to the .pln again with them . Still, I put those 'drawings' on manual update, so it doesn't constantly auto update whenever I open the layoutbook .PLN


Hope that helped

[Anonymous]

Hello,

we have just started another large project and are trialling this method of separate files for model and layouts, using PMK files.

All seems ok so far, with small file sizes - both files approx 50MB for a 66 unit development over 3 stories, 70+ layouts.....

But have just started setting up elevations, and would like to back reference them, but we are having difficulties doing this. All we get is the '#LayID' in the drawing title where it should say the sheet number.

Anyone care to share what I am missing on this?

Thanks,

Mike

[Anonymous]

Anyone?

[Anonymous]

Not sure if it helps but I do know with a single project, not split like yours, but may be similar, you need the marker to...

1- be turned on

2- visible within the view port

for back referencing to work, as far as I understand back referencing works to the marker, not the view port.

[owen]

Can't check right now but i don't think back-referencing works when you are using PMKs - only when the marker and view are in the same file as the layout

os

[Anonymous]

Yes, you may be confirming my suspicions Owen.....