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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Copying References from Drawing to Drawing</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/114782/copying-references-from-drawing-to-drawing</link><description>Hi Everyone, 
 Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this question. 
 Is there a way to copy references from drawing to drawing? 
 My company uses Projectwise to manage all drawings and I&amp;#39;m basically being lazy and don&amp;#39;t want to locate every drawing</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Copying References from Drawing to Drawing</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/708841?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:28:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:fdd6ac38-8020-4dd7-abae-1d113916fdb2</guid><dc:creator>Jennifer Huber</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Very late to the game, but if anyone else has this question and finds this thread like I did... In the nesting attachments instead of&amp;nbsp;the live nesting option (where you would only &lt;em&gt;see&lt;/em&gt; the nested references)&amp;nbsp;you can select &amp;quot;Copy Attachments&amp;quot;. All references that would then show in live nesting are then placed as references themselves in this drawing.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Copying References from Drawing to Drawing</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/351875?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2016 08:17:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:a33c63c7-b355-4910-96ec-9e5d18bd7e1a</guid><dc:creator>Josh WHEALY</dc:creator><description>Thanks for all the responses guys. Given certain restrictions that the client has put in place we cannot use live nesting (should have stated that earlier). I think the answer is to copy a dgn that I know has all the reference files in it that I want and rename it.  I won&amp;#39;t be doing that through Explorer but it can still be done in ProjectWise.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Copying References from Drawing to Drawing</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/351843?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2016 05:11:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:1566ffec-2c5a-4591-9a43-d2c994829d2e</guid><dc:creator>Thomas Voghera</dc:creator><description>Josh&lt;br /&gt;
Copy in Windows Explorer, save as in MicroStation or using seeds sounds like your best options. &lt;br /&gt;
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But it is little known you can drag and drop files to REFERENCES dialog from Windows Explorer.&lt;br /&gt;
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I don&amp;#39;t use Project Explorer - I have a feeling you can do this in PE also.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Copying References from Drawing to Drawing</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/351840?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2016 04:58:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:f2fd57ad-0fad-4436-8157-37a13bbda04c</guid><dc:creator>Thomas Voghera</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Todd&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;reg #2 - there is a button at the button at the bottom in REFERENCES dialog where you can select no nesting/nesting/copy. Copy shows all nested references, and hides them if you revert to no nesting.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Todd Moser&amp;quot;]I am unaware of anyway to Copy and Paste reference files from one DGN file to another. I think you may have two options.&lt;br /&gt; Option 1, You would have to Make a Copy of the original file by using Save As Command. This will save the file and reference files as is, then you will need to delete all the unwanted information from the Active file leaving you with all the reference files still attached. &lt;br /&gt; Option 2, Create a blank new dgn file and attach the master file with all the reference files desired. In the reference manager, select the nested reference file, go to setting and copy reference attachment to new active file. After you have done this for all the reference files you can detach the original master file.&lt;br /&gt;Hope this helps.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Copying References from Drawing to Drawing</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/351801?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2016 20:16:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:5f9fa8ef-47d0-4252-aaeb-04c9fb90353b</guid><dc:creator>Tim Hickman</dc:creator><description>Either way - I would at that point, take that file and use it as a seed for future files (but as George states, make sure it is exactly what you need first).&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Copying References from Drawing to Drawing</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/351796?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2016 19:37:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:58a099bc-9172-429f-b1de-27fc26d096a2</guid><dc:creator>George A. Martin</dc:creator><description>Be careful with Option 2! The files may have differences if different seed files were used to create the files. Best option is Option 1. Just create a file using Save As, or just copy the original. That way the files are identical.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Copying References from Drawing to Drawing</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/351744?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2016 15:20:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:68384f70-8084-40cc-bf55-b4d9d5b21d24</guid><dc:creator>Tim Hickman</dc:creator><description>Oh - Ok - I see where you are going with this. Option 2 - you can make the nested references &amp;quot;direct&amp;quot; attachments.&lt;br /&gt;
and a third option would be, that after you create the new blank file with the needed attachments, use this as a seed file for any future files that need to be created.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Copying References from Drawing to Drawing</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/351742?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2016 15:13:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:512e493e-3f2f-45ab-92ae-779a9be4d2b7</guid><dc:creator>Todd Moser</dc:creator><description>I am unaware of anyway to Copy and Paste reference files from one DGN file to another. I think you may have two options.&lt;br /&gt;
Option 1,  You would have to Make a Copy of the original file by using Save As Command.  This will save the file and reference files as is, then you will need to delete all the unwanted information from the Active file leaving you with all the reference files still attached.   &lt;br /&gt;
Option 2, Create a blank new dgn file and attach the master file with all the reference files desired.  In the reference manager, select the nested reference file, go to setting and copy reference attachment to new active file.  After you have done this for all the reference files you can detach the original master file.&lt;br /&gt;
Hope this helps.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Copying References from Drawing to Drawing</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/351740?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2016 14:53:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:ffc1e2d6-75cb-4068-8fd8-4acbc94e324d</guid><dc:creator>Tim Hickman</dc:creator><description>I don&amp;#39;t follow what you are asking. If you have one file that has all the references you need then why not use that file as a reference ?&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>