jameselgar Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Is it possible to a bind a vectorworks drawing including all external references as you can with AutoCAD? This would really help our filing and archiving procedures. We are using version 2012 fundamentals. Thanks Quote Link to comment
P Retondo Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 James, I don't think this is as simple as in AutoCAD, but you can delete a reference in the target file and choose to save the reference viewports and referenced resources. In the case of viewports, a new design layer is automatically created which contains the objects originally referenced instead of a viewport, and the layer in which the viewport existed still contains a viewport, but is internally linked to the newly-created design layer. Because of the new layers, one has to tweak visibilities to get things to show up correctly, but the material is essentially consolidated into a single file. I don't use this functionality, so I can't speak to other issues that lurk in the details. Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 One way: Save the file and all possible reference files into a single folder. Edit these references to "Save reference location: Path relative to current document" Any other referenced files delete the reference as Pete details above. Save Archive the folder. Quote Link to comment
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