which project?

[Anonymous]

2006 C3D. An engineer at my company asked me to work on a drawing not created by me. How can I identify which project the drawing is attached to?

Thanks for your help.

[Anonymous]

C3D is drawing based unlike LandDeskBottom. C3D drawings are not project
based. All data resides in the drawing.

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2006 C3D. An engineer at my company asked me to work on a drawing not
created by me. How can I identify which project the drawing is attached to?

Thanks for your help.

[Anonymous]

C3D 2006 has projects. It was the first implementation of data sharing between drawings.

I'm looking at an 06 drawing that is part of a project and I can see that the project lists the drawings that belong to it but I can't see any project info in the drawing. Are there any data shortcuts to or from this drawing that might give some clue as to the project name?

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply Wesley.

I understand the differences between "LandDeskBottom" and C3D. The reason I ask is when I expand the drawings directory in the project structure, the drawing is not included in the list. When I open the drawing using "open", I attempted to attach the drawing to the project and that option wasn't available telling me it was attached to a project but not the one it should be attached to. Hopefully that explains my question.

Thanks

[Anonymous]

I believe that with the '06 implemtation, a drawing is added to a project by
being added to the project's XML file (behind the scenes, not manually), in
the project folder. Where on your drive the file resides is completely
irrelevant to whether or not is in a particular project.

wrote in message news:5521532@discussion.autodesk.com...
Thanks for the reply Wesley.

I understand the differences between "LandDeskBottom" and C3D. The reason I
ask is when I expand the drawings directory in the project structure, the
drawing is not included in the list. When I open the drawing using "open", I
attempted to attach the drawing to the project and that option wasn't
available telling me it was attached to a project but not the one it should
be attached to. Hopefully that explains my question.

Thanks

[Anonymous]

whoops. sorry about that. I am not familiar with the project structure in
2006 since I've only been running 2007. Maybe try reposting with a
different title like "2006 project structure".

good luck.


wrote in message news:5521532@discussion.autodesk.com...
Thanks for the reply Wesley.

I understand the differences between "LandDeskBottom" and C3D. The reason I
ask is when I expand the drawings directory in the project structure, the
drawing is not included in the list. When I open the drawing using "open", I
attempted to attach the drawing to the project and that option wasn't
available telling me it was attached to a project but not the one it should
be attached to. Hopefully that explains my question.

Thanks

[Anonymous]

Let me ask this: If I open a drawing in C3D 2006, can I somehow list the properties of the drawing and have it tell me whether or not it is attached to a project and, if so, where that project resides (directory structure)?

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Not to my knowledge, although I wouldn't say that is a fact.

Sorry I can't offer more on it. I don't have '06 available, so can't even
look into it.

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Let me ask this: If I open a drawing in C3D 2006, can I somehow list the
properties of the drawing and have it tell me whether or not it is attached
to a project and, if so, where that project resides (directory structure)?

Thanks.