Hi everyone,
Is it possible to make a custom connection and use it in different projects?
I made a custom connection and i used it in one project.
Now i've started a new project, but the custom connection created in the first project isn't available in the new project?
Any ideas ?
Thank you,
Marius.
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Yes for sure this is possible. If you create a custom connection and only save the model, you could use it in this model. If you save the file in the folder 'c/programdata/autodesk/advance steel 2019/*installedversion*/shared/connection templates' then you could use it in every other model. This folder path you be changed by default 'path for custom connection'.
But I would not save the whole model there...I would copy the connection and the parts in a new model.dwg. the name you use for this DWG is the name which will be shown in the dialogue box by inserting the connection.
For example: you create a handrail with different base plates and call the connections 'baseplate pipe-flat' and 'baseplate square-flat'. Now you save the dwg as 'handrail connections'. If you use the 'insert custom connection' command you will see a tab called 'handrail connections' and you could expand this tab and will see the two connections.
What I want to say: create connection DWG which are named like categories and then in this DWG save not only one neither a lot connections.
Typed by phone... Sebastian
Sebastian Eiche
Application Engineer @Mensch und Maschine acadGraph
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