eas Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 Is there anyway to figure out from where a symbol is referenced? We have some really old project with no institutional memory anymore. Some symbols are resetting themselves. The quick fix is to break the reference. But it seems that one should be able to use the resource browser to figure out where the symbol lives. Quote Link to comment
Tom4 Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 Are they resetting to the new template or to the old version of the symbols? Tom Quote Link to comment
eas Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 No new template. The symbols are resetting to the old version--referenced in from some unknown file. Thus the desire to track it down. I can think of other times that this would be useful. (Actually it seems quite weird to me that there VW is set up to have blind references.) Quote Link to comment
Tom4 Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 They don't appear in your resource browser? Even when I have old items come along into a new drawing they show in the browser. The other thing is can you kill them before they go into the new drawing. Tom Quote Link to comment
eas Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 Yes they are in the reference browser. As I mentioned in my first post the quick fix is to break the reference. The problem is that there does not seem to be a way to ascertain from where a symbol has been referenced. This seems to be a basic piece of information. Being able to reference a symbol is a great thing. Not knowing where it is coming from makes the referencing a much less useful tool. It would be lovely to hear from Nemetschek on this--I sort of can't believe that no one else is interested in having traceable references. Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 No, we'd like it too. Quote Link to comment
eas Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 (edited) Ahh, has it shown up in the wish list yet? Or should I go bopping over there and make the suggestion? Edited March 20, 2007 by eas Quote Link to comment
jfmarch Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 you should refer to my posts here, and this thread overall: http://techboard.nemetschek.net/ubbthrea...=true#Post75682 Quote Link to comment
eas Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 Thank jf good to know this is on the radar. VW can be so great and so exasperating. (like everything else CAD I suppose.) Quote Link to comment
dtcastro Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 we have this problem too. Our solution (probably very basic) is to create our standard symbol files (blank apart from the symbols) and reference them into our 'master' files. Once they are in we use them as normal, but if we need to change, we know where to find them. Therefore for each project, we don't have hundreds of independent symbols (we document in seperate master files and then combine to create our architectural sheets which are then annotated). Quote Link to comment
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