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Handling Master Units - Your thoughts ?

rskA24H9 — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:57:42 GMT

Hi Experts,

I would like to hear your thoughts on this.

In my company, we are organizing some master units. A master unit could be a pump unit, which includes the PumpUnit.dwg and the exported DWG from our Inventor, as we draw our steel structure in the frame generator. If we need the pump unit in more than one size, we create them in separate master projects to avoid double tagging.

Our folder structure is as follows:

Plantdesign
- Pump Unit
  - PumpUnit.dwg
  - PumpUnitFrame.dwg (Xref’ed into PumpUnit.dwg)
Ortho Drawings
- Dwgs
  - PumpUnitOrtho.dwg
Inventor Drawings
- PumpUnit Inventor drawings

Now, here’s the fun part. I want to copy the pump unit to my new real project. I use "Copy Drawing to Project" on the Plantdesign/PumpUnit.dwg and want it to take the references over to the new project. It places the PumpUnit.dwg in the correct subfolder, but it throws the reference PumpUnitFrame.dwg inside the Plantdesign folder. And then I have to move it and reattach it to the right source.

After that, I have to manually copy the Ortho drawing and keep the same name because we cannot change the source on an Ortho and keep all the tags and dimensions?. I also need to manually copy or regenerate all the isometrics.

If you have any insights or suggestions on how to streamline this process, please share your thoughts!

Betreff: Handling Master Units - Your thoughts ?

h_eger — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:03:18 GMT

@rskA24H9 ,

You have no chance, this functionality is not supported in Plant 3D.

Betreff: Handling Master Units - Your thoughts ?

rskA24H9 — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:24:01 GMT

You mean by replaceing the base model in the ortho drawings? That's also okay.

But what about the Thing about copy a drawing Including reference drawings to a sub folder? Does that work for you?

And I am not takling about isometeics only the drawing and xrefs.

Betreff: Handling Master Units - Your thoughts ?

h_eger — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:26:42 GMT

No, it does not work with basic drawings and XREFs.
I had a similar request from a customer and we did not find a solution even after consulting the P3D development team

Betreff: Handling Master Units - Your thoughts ?

rskA24H9 — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:33:20 GMT

What did the costumer after that? 🙂

I think the team have to accept it, i just have to describe the work around and be able to say that i have searched for a solution.

It is a bit stupid, mainly becouse it looks like it can, it Even ask you, if you want to copy it over, and it does it, but not fully.

If just i was able to make a pack and go of each unit Including sqlite datebase and then import them into the mysql projects , that could be awsome. 😀 Maybe that should be set as a wish for a future function.

Betreff: Handling Master Units - Your thoughts ?

h_eger — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:16:21 GMT

What did the costumer after that?

The same as you. Set up everything manually

I think the team have to accept it, i just have to describe the work around and be able to say that i have searched for a solution.

Yes, you can say it like that

It is a bit stupid, mainly becouse it looks like it can, it Even ask you, if you want to copy it over, and it does it, but not fully.

yes it works if you use the default setting for the folders

If just i was able to make a pack and go of each unit Including sqlite datebase and then import them into the mysql projects , that could be awsome. Maybe that should be set as a wish for a future function.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-plant-3d-p-id-ideas/idb-p/48