All Drawings Mysteriously Unlinked

[Anonymous]

Has anyone every had experienced an issue in AC10 where all of the drawings that are placed on all of the layouts in file become unlinked? The problem is resolved by going to each one and right clicking and clicking link drawing to. Archicad will automatically find the correct view to link the drawing too, or just remembers it, either way it is a bit disconcerting due to the fact that had it gone unnoticed a print may have gone out without the drawings being up to date.

[TomWaltz]

If you select multiple views, can you still click the "Link to" button and point them to the right PLN?

I've seen that before. Usually it was due to a drive being unmounted or a path not available. Usually clicking "Check Status" after the drive was reconnected fixed them and, if not, then you could select all the files from a PLN and "Link To" the location.

The down side was that you had to link to each PLN file individually, so if you had 6 PLNs you had to click "Link to" for all the views from each one (OK, it's only 6 commands issued, but it's still annoying)

[Anonymous]

These were not hotlinks, they were drawings in a PLP that were looking at views in the same PLP. There was no unmapped drive to contend with.

[TomWaltz]

PivoArch wrote:
These were not hotlinks, they were drawings in a PLP that were looking at views in the same PLP. There was no unmapped drive to contend with.

Oh, the views were placed on layouts that were in the same file? OK, that I've never seen before!

[Andy Thomson]

I've seen that happen before. Never in MY files of course, but it has been a bewildering thing to troubleshoot, I'd like to know what causes it....this in AC11 too...maybe there is an inadvertent shortcut for 'break all linked drawings' 😕

[Anonymous]

PivoArch wrote:
These were not hotlinks, they were drawings in a PLP that were looking at views in the same PLP. There was no unmapped drive to contend with.

I have seen it a few times, and when you say it, I think it is only in teamwork files we had this problem.

[Anonymous]

Good to know it is not just me. Another linking problem I am encountering is that if you create a linked detail marker and link it to a placed drawing it will loose the link after a send and recieve, however if you link it to the first placed drawing of a view then it will be fine. Graphisoft is apparently already working on this as well.

[Rick Thompson]

Happens to me all the time. This was a bone of contention for me during beta 11, and it is still the same way (I guess I wasn't believed.. or they couldn't reproduce the issue.. with the same files?????). Granted, I am in a little different situation in that all my files were brought over from days long ago, but it is a pain in the arce. I am continually migrating files and too often they simply break links when changing windows.. at least the externally linked details. I can normally close the file, reopen and they are fine without relinking. So, try closing and reopening and that might work for you to.

[Anonymous]

Sorry now that I have two issues in one post, which issue are you suggesting closing and reopinging will solve?

[Rick Thompson]

The first one.. Linked drawings on the layout.. didn't realize we were multi-tasking here:)