Can you add a hyperlink to a section callout that will not open a design file or model but once a pdf combined file is created the callout can be selected and jump to the page in the pdf set.
I know a client of ours is doing this with REVIT and it makes it really handy to jump back and forth through their pdf documents.
go to a plan page select the elevation callout and bam it takes you to the page. Same for sections and details
Yes you can link to pdfs, I'm not sure about specific pages with pre CE but definately pdf files can be linked to an object even an active point can be used but it depends on which version of Mstn and which version of Adobe Acrobat reader is set to default as the pdf association... no all versions of mstn can use all versions of adobe reader, my V8i ss3 cannot use anything but adobe reader to open pdfs on the fly.. and if you give this to clients they have to be able to do the same path and have the same version compatability... but in house works well...
IMHO I belive bentley is always behind with the latest Adobe reader and will not allow you to choose a different reader as the association settings for pdf in windows... well that been my experience for the last 10 years...
Anecdotal experience...
A few years ago I created tens of hundreds of links in several hundred dgn files to pdf reports making the cad files more interactive and informative to the engineering and admin staffs at one of my previous employers and it was wonderfully received and acknowledged as great move forward.. at the time we had adobe reader 8 or 9 and Mst V8iss3... after 1 year of it all working perfectly, suddenly over night without warning it just stopped opening the links!
I thought it might have been IT re-pathing drives and folders.. but it turned out that IT did a company wide Adobe acrobat reader update to version 9 or 10 and mstn no longer knew how to open the pdfs... after much heated dialog with IT we ended up making a virtual drive with virtual versions of Bentley view and Adobe reader that were compatible with each other.. needless to say I lost a lot of good will with the IT guys....but it worked without changing all the links... I was even able to update the pdfs as long as the names and paths remained the same....
Lorys
Started msnt work 1990 - Retired Nov 2022 ( oh boy am I old )
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I'm not a fan of adobe reader or acrobat. We use Bluebeam revu and bluebeam Extreme. Extreme allows you to create links from page titles and finds all the callouts threw-out the set and and add links
Kirk
I Wish Cadland was Reality
Kirk said:I'm not a fan of adobe reader or acrobat. We use Bluebeam revu and bluebeam Extreme. Extreme allows you to create links from page titles and finds all the callouts threw-out the set and and add links
So its all post cad pdf production adding in the bookmarks etc, but will msnt v8i ss3 or 4 launch bluebeam from a link to pdf in mstn session in a msnt dgn?