Ramon PG Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 What is the best way to import vendor details? Some are great and even editable, but I don't want to bring over to my drawing a ton of new classes that don't go away even if you delete the related item. Importing them as PDFs is an alternative, but then they are not editable. Quote Link to comment
Ramon PG Posted September 21, 2005 Author Share Posted September 21, 2005 Thanks for the excellent tip. I'll test it right away. Quote Link to comment
BG Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 After importing in to a blank file, if you don't want to change all of the class names, you can simply delete all of the classes except "none" and "dimension" then everything will be on the "none" class. BG Quote Link to comment
Ramon PG Posted September 21, 2005 Author Share Posted September 21, 2005 It works very well. But I can't help to think that referencing these typical details externally would be better. You could have a detail folder with all your typical and favorite details and reference it instead of copying them into the file. If anything for the fact that the VW documents grow and grow in size. Mine just grew by 6 magabytes to 35 Mb. I'm reading about referencing in the manual but I don't quite get it yet. Quote Link to comment
mikatoa Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 BG. Also you can import to layers rather than classes. They all then come under one (import) class. Find scanning through layers using command/apple arrows with layer active only a quick way to browse layers. Quote Link to comment
Ramon PG Posted September 21, 2005 Author Share Posted September 21, 2005 quote: Originally posted by BG: After importing in to a blank file, if you don't want to change all of the class names, you can simply delete all of the classes except "none" and "dimension" then everything will be on the "none" class. BG I did just that and imported all the info into a class named after the detail. Still, I have not tried the Reference method which looks interesting. Quote Link to comment
Travis Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 As a matter of course, we keep all our typical details in "libraries" which are then referenced by the drawing file. As the drawing becomes complete, we "break" the link to the referenced item(s) and check to keep the data in the main file. Besides being much more efficient it also allows individual details to be tweaked, if necessary, to fit the specific drawing but keeps most everything consistent and uniform. For whatever it's worth, Quote Link to comment
Ramon PG Posted September 22, 2005 Author Share Posted September 22, 2005 quote: Originally posted by Travis: As a matter of course, we keep all our typical details in "libraries" which are then referenced by the drawing file. As the drawing becomes complete, we "break" the link to the referenced item(s) and check to keep the data in the main file. Besides being much more efficient it also allows individual details to be tweaked, if necessary, to fit the specific drawing but keeps most everything consistent and uniform. For whatever it's worth, Makes a ton of sense to me. Definitely worth a look. But about the class thing. Does referencing bring over all your "libraries'" classes to your current drawing? Or will breaking the link do it? Quote Link to comment
Travis Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 The classes used on the referenced layer are brought in when you create the reference link. Even if you remove the link, they stay until purged or otherwise removed. Quote Link to comment
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