View Set column in PM Drawing Usage

[Karl Ottenstein]

I just had "oh sh*t" moment when I discovered that the LBK that I had gotten from someone else had the wrong views linked into some of the sheets.

The Drawing Usage Navigator view in PM 9 shows the Name of the imported view ... but not the view set that it came from.

In the case of multiple view sets having the same names for views, this can be a mess to audit as I found out today. One view set had drafting combinations, the other had final document settings.

If you open the drawing settings for each drawing ... one by one ... you can see the view set that the view came from. It would be much faster - and more reassuring to confirm the information frequently - if there was a separate column in Drawing Usage that listed the name of the View Set.

(Another column for the source file would be great too ... but someone has already wished for that one.)

Whaddaya think?

Karl

[Aussie John]

This is not a problem I have encountered very often but I do imagine when it is needed it would be very useful so will vote important.

Another tiresome workaround is to select the file and relink. After selecting the file to link to, you can see the folder of the viewset where file is (its checked in the dialogue)

[Ben Odonnell]

Karl,
Totaly agree with you on this one. BTW, you can see the view it is linked to down the bottom of the navigator when you are in Drawing usage.

Under the properties tab. See image.
Cheers.
Ben

[Karl Ottenstein]

Ben wrote:
Karl,
Totaly agree with you on this one. BTW, you can see the view it is linked to down the bottom of the navigator when you are in Drawing usage.

Duh. Thanks for that, Ben.

Karl