How to hotlink different PLN's with differnt story settings?

[rob2218]

what's the best to hotlink 2 different PLN files that have two very different story settings into one main PLN file?
any write up on it?? what works best??
Please help.
how do I go about hotlinking each individual floor if that is the only alternative I have available??

thanks
archicad 12 US version.

[Rod Jurich]

rob2218 wrote:
what's the best to hotlink 2 different PLN files that
have two very different story settings into one main PLN file?/.

Rob, just faced with similar problem.
You will have to create identical stories in both projects.

[Anonymous]

Rod's method works and has the advantage of not having to split up and reassemble the models but means you have to deal with twice the number of stories in each file. Personally I like to take the extra time up front to link the buildings story by story and not have the ongoing hassle of dealing with the extra stories.

[rob2218]

Ouch! identical stories in both files? wow....is there no other way?

[Anonymous]

rob2218 wrote:
Ouch! identical stories in both files? wow....is there no other way?

Two ways actually:

1. Hotlink the stories individually and adjust them to their correct elevations in 3D

2. The (really) old fashioned way. Save the buildings as library parts.

[Erika Epstein]

Matthew's approach is not difficult. As he points out, the set up is what takes time, but saves you much more time throughout the life of the project.
You can create publisher sets of the story by story modules to further ease your work flow/update process.

[Anonymous]

I will do also the way from Mathew.
You can adjust just in a main PLN. This is the advantage of hotlink.
Anyway you should write down the height of stories in a mail pln.
It is not double work.

[rob2218]

could you write down the step by step for inserting the stories individually? I don't seem to get that option when I bring in the PLN files I want to hotlink. I'm not really sure at what point do I say "individual story" or "entire buildng"??? that would great help.

thanks for the quick responses. this forum should get paid for all their great advice.
🙂

Matthew wrote:

rob2218 wrote:
Ouch! identical stories in both files? wow....is there no other way?

Two ways actually:

1. Hotlink the stories individually and adjust them to their correct elevations in 3D

2. The (really) old fashioned way. Save the buildings as library parts.

[Anonymous]

File/External Content/PLace hotlinked module, then see image below. After that go to 3D, select the module (suspend groups=off), click hotspot and choose Elevate to adjust the height.

[Link]

This is a long-standing, major shortcoming in ArchiCAD that GS needs to address before their userbase overtakes them on this issue too.

It should be pointed out that a multistory hotlinked module will merge with all (multistory) SEOs in tact. Hotlinking individual stories will ~break~ all such SEOs.

The good news is that once the SEOs have been restablished in the parent file, they will remain in tact no matter what happens to the child.

Cheers,
Link.