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Project manager unable to find dwg

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Project manager unable to find dwg

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Sombody changed a directory name and a project lost the connection to a file.  All layouts in the project are in a single DWG.  I can re-attach a single layout but when I try to attach the next it tells me the dwg is in use in a different project.  If I try to create a new project and attach the drawing I get the same message.  Further the commands in project manager are sometimes grayed out.  At this point I have a single layout attached but all comands are grayed out and I cant do anything.

 

There seems to be something basic about project manager I am not understanding.

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Anonymous
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The folowing sequence seems to restore the connection between a project and a DWG:

1) close all projects

2) open the drawing

3) in project manager create new project (for some reason a drawing must be open or create new project is grayed out

4) use the old project as a template so project variables are not lost

5) add the drawing to the new project

 

 

Given this I was able to create a new project using the old one as a template and import the DWG.

This seems to have worked except that layouts cannot be opened from project manager only from the status bar.  I think this has always been true.

 

This raises the question how does a project know where its drawing is?  Specificaly is the path relative or absolute.  If the path is relative I should be able to keep the project and the associated drawing in the same directory and moving or renaming the directory should not break the link.

 

 

 

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maxim_k
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Hi,

 

You can try another workflow (I tested it in 2015 version):

- open project which Layouts are missing (you move DWG file to another location on disk)

- you should receive warning from AutoCAD:

2015-03-13 19-08-48 Drawing Missing.png

 

- pick on the second option "Select a new drawing..."

- now the new window should open "Repair broken layouts":

 

2015-03-13 19-10-06 Repair Broken Layouts.png

 

where you can add new (actually old, but from another location) drawing with "+" at the bottom, than for each of the Layouts select this drawing in the 3-rd column of this "Repair" window, than select corresponding layouts in the 4-th column to match the names in the first column.

 

- click on OK and all Layouts should appear in the Project Manager window.

 

And yes - in order to be able to use Project Manager - for example to open project - you need to have drawing opened in AutoCAD, this could be even new empty drawing, not related to the current Project.

 

Maxim

 


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Many Thanks,

 

I thought I tried using the repair window but I must not have used it correctly.  If I follow your explanation I:

1) get to that window

2) Leave the layouts shown

3) select the DWG with the + button

4) for each layout select the same DWG and  layout from the DWG

 

Two questions:

1) I thought I tried this but when I tried to link the second layout it gave the message that the drawing was in use by another project

2) Am I right that each layout must be re-linked separatly?  Just giving it the new location of the file is not enough?

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maxim_k
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Answering your questions :
1) Probably the file you was trying to relink was opened in AutoCAD, Try close it before reminding
2) Yes, you need to relink each layout in the project individually, as initially the right most field is empty even after you pick DWG file in third column

Maxim

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Another issue with project manager.

If I have the layouts in a DWG as members of a project and I use duplicat in show drawings and layouts to create a new layout in the same DWG

how do I add this to a project?  There seems to be no way to add a layout to a project.

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maxim_k
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Unfortunately there is a limitation in AutoCAD for Mac Project Manager - you can only add all Layouts from the drawing when you add this drawing to the Project. You can not select individual Layouts when you add them to the Project as you can do in OC version of AutoCAD. So if you will add Layouts to the drawing which is already in the Project, you can not add them to the project on Mac as you can on PC.
Actually this problem was already discussed and you can find a sort of workaround here:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-general/project-and-layuout-properties-in-blocks/m-p/5...

Maxim

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