topic Open drawing and jump directly to an object from external link in Plant 3D in AutoCAD Plant 3D Forum

Open drawing and jump directly to an object from external link in Plant 3D

andrea.carlini — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:37:43 GMT

I have a very hot question about Plant 3D interoperability.

We need a way to open a Plant 3D drawing and jump/focus directly into an object element ( by id, name, tag or whatever), possibly using a single url .

Right now, we need to open the drawing and search for the asset name manually, that's a huge waste of time when you need to do this operation 200 times a day.

I've not seen similar questions in any forum or googling it

Any suggestion ?

Thanks in advance

@andrea.carlini
Topic Title has been changed for better findability by @joaquim.moral Original Post: Open drawing and jump directly to an object from external link

Re: Open drawing and jump directly to an object from external link

jabowabo — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 16:54:34 GMT

The DataManager has some functionality but probably not quite what you are looking for. Using the API is the only way AFAIK.

Re: Open drawing and jump directly to an object from external link

George.Endrulat — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 10:02:11 GMT

If you've set up a .nwf in navisworks (manage or sim) and the .nwf directly pulls in the plant 3d .dwgs you can select the item and under the item ribbon click "switch back", this will open plant with the exact item in the exact same view... in perspective (you need to turn it off)... but it works really really well.