Plant 3D 30 day trial limited to only CS150 spec?

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I am demoing a 30 day trial for Plant 3D and seem to be unable to load any spec other than the included CS150. If I try to load a different one such as CS300 I get the error message "Unable to load spec file [SPEC] - The spec file may have been renamed in Windows Explorer, moved, or deleted". This error message occurs even though the CS300 spec file is located in the same path as CS150. I also get this error if I try to create a spec from scratch. Am I doing something incorrectly or is the demo hard coded to only allow CS150?

[jabowabo · Accepted solution]

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@Anonymous wrote:

CS300 spec file is located in the same path as CS150

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What path is that? A project looks at specs ONLY in the Spec Files folder within the project directory. Verify that this is the case.

[Anonymous]

The path is 

...AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Autodesk AutoCAD Plant 3D 2017\R21.0\enu\SampleProjects\SampleProject\Spec_Sheets

As specified in Project Setup > Plant 3D DWG Settings > Paths > Spec Sheets directory.

I have confirmed that other Spec files appear in this folder and they show up just fine in the drop down under the Part Insertion box.

[Anonymous]

I created a new project file and specified my own path this time which seems to have solved the issue; I must have been mixed up with the previous one. Thanks!