Place Drawing in Model View

Do one of the following:

Drag and Drop

Drag drawing files (one at a time) from your file system.

With Drawing tool

  1. Activate the Drawing tool.
  2. Click in the  view.
  3. The Relink Drawing dialog appears. Choose the source of the Drawing: either local file system or BIMcloud.

    If needed, log in to BIMcloud. See Log in to BIMcloud.

  4. Click Browse, then select the desired Drawing file.

    Note:

    • You can place one file at a time and one PDF page at a time using the Drawing tool. To place multiple drawings, use File > External Content > Place External Drawing as described below.

With File menu commands

Use one of the following depending on the source of the Drawing:

  • File > External Content > Place External Drawing
  • File > External Content > Place External Drawing from BIMcloud

    Choose the BIMcloud, then the project you need.

    If needed, log in to BIMcloud. See Log in to BIMcloud.

    Note: To link a drawing from a Teamwork project, the source Teamwork project must have the same version number as the host project.

Place selected pages from a PDF

This works if the PDF is placed using drag-and-drop or a File menu command.

If the imported drawing is a multi-page PDF:

  1. A chooser dialog appears. Select one or more or all pages.
  2. Click Place.

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Replace a PDF page

After placing a PDF, use the “Replace page” context menu command (from selected Drawings or Drawing Manager) to relink to another page within the same PDF document.


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Related Topics

To import only certain layers of DWG/DXF or DWF drawings:

See “Enable Partial Open” at Open Options (DXF/DWG Translation Setup).

To show/hide the source layers of imported DWG drawings placed in MEP Designer:

See Embedded Layers.