Plant 3D Modell no longer shown in Project Manager and can't be copied back in

[joerg.limley]

Hallo Guys,

I have the following problem:

A Plant 3D(Plant 3D 2018, SINGLE User SQL)  drawing is not shown in the project manager anymore.

The file got moved to another direction in the Project folder, sadly I don’t know how this happened.

But when I want to add the file back into the project via cope drawing into the project, the following error occurred (german version) : Beim Öffnen der folgenden Zeichnung(en) tritt ein Fehler auf. Stellen Sie sicher, dass die Zeichnung(en) gültig ist/sind und dass sie nicht in einem anderen Vorgang verwendet wird/werden.

Ruffly translated: Opening the following drawings caused an error. Be sure that the drawing is valid and is not used by another process.  

My guess is that this drawing lost its connection to the project database somehow.

I can open it directly and Plant says that the drawing is a Plant 3D drawing but not part of the project.

We have Problem with our file backups at the moment so I need to repair this file somehow.

Many thanks in advance

Greetings

Jörg limley

[Dan.Scales]

Hi @joerg.limley,

You could try to copy/paste the contents of the drawing into a new project drawing.

Thanks,

Dan

[joerg.limley · Accepted solution]

Hallo,

i found the solution, after searching through the piping.dcf file. I found that the file name of the drawing didn't match the filename in the piping.dcf. I found a .BAK file with the corresponding name and made it a .DWG. It was possible to copy the .DWG with the correct name into the project!

[mgalicki]

What is used to open the "piping.dcf" file??

[jabowabo]

SQLite Expert Personal will do it.