Copying References from Drawing to Drawing

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'm basically being lazy and don't want to locate every drawing individually in order to reference them in. If one drawing already has all the files I want to reference is there method such as 'Copy' and 'Paste' to get reference files into a blank drawing file?

Josh

  • Todd

    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. 

    Unknown said:
    I am unaware of anyway to Copy and Paste reference files from one DGN file to another. I think you may have two options.
    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.
    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.
    Hope this helps.

    regards / Thomas Voghera

  • Josh
    Copy in Windows Explorer, save as in MicroStation or using seeds sounds like your best options.

    But it is little known you can drag and drop files to REFERENCES dialog from Windows Explorer.

    I don't use Project Explorer - I have a feeling you can do this in PE also.

    regards / Thomas Voghera

  • 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't be doing that through Explorer but it can still be done in ProjectWise.
  • 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 the live nesting option (where you would only see the nested references) you can select "Copy Attachments". All references that would then show in live nesting are then placed as references themselves in this drawing.