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 Archicad view.

3.The Relink Drawing dialog appears. Choose the source of the Drawing: either local file system or BIMcloud.

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

Notes:

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.

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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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 Archicad:

See Embedded Layers.