Hi all,
Our current setup is that each discipline (arch, struct, mech, elec) has their own central model. When we distribute coordination models to sub contractors we combine all central models to a single, detached model. When doing this I prefer to bind the linked models (linked as "overlay") so that we only have 1 file to send instead of creating a .zip with all models.
We have done this method a few times and its worked fine. Last night I tried binding a structual model into an arch model and got the error:
Unable to bind some link instances. Either the link contains no 3d elements or there was an error loading its elements into the current project.
I searched through every forum post I could find on this, tried everything and could not get it to work. I tried changing the phase created on the model to be linked, deleting some elements, disabling shared coordiates, purges, everything I could think of or find and it never worked.
What did end up working was instead binding the arch to the structural (basically the same thing but in reverse). Its very strange to me that it worked this way but not the other way around. Does anyone have any ideas as to what caused this? It is problematic because the arch models usually have alot more elements/info meaning it takes significantly longer time to bind it to the structural instead of binding the structural to the arch.
Hopefully I explained this clearly enough! Thanks in advance!
