
Once you place a Drawing whose source is an external Teamwork project, a copy of the Drawing is created on your machine. Note on External Drawing Update (Drawing placed from BIMcloud) See the workflow description at Layout Workflow: Larger Projects. Select the PMK files in the Drawing Manager (multi-selection is available) and use the following command from the context menu: Link to original Model View. If the Layout Book contains Drawings whose source is a linked PMK file (created in the Publisher out of an ARCHICAD model view), you can re-link all these PMK-based drawings back to their original model view. In the Layout window: Select the drawing(s), then use Update from the context menu.– Select the drawing(s), then use Update from the context menu, or the palette’s Update button. In the Navigator, Organizer or Drawing Manager:.To update selected Drawings, do one of the following: When opening a project with drawings whose sources have been modified, the Drawings page of the Action Center will alert you. You can also check Drawings and access Drawing Manager through the Action Center. Use the Drawing Manager to check the status of all drawings in the project, modify their update type, reestablish, repair or change links. Note on Manual-Update Drawings in Teamwork: If you have reserved a manual-update Drawing, then you alone have the right to update that Drawing.įor any placed Drawing, set its default update type in Drawing Settings. Manual-update Drawings are updated only if you issue an update command. This can be useful if you wish to keep the drawings untouched until they are approved or you are ready to move on to the next stage in your work. The drawing is frozen in the state its source view or file was in when placed on the layout or updated.

external project, PDF, DWG, PNG) will be updated only if you have reserved that Drawing. Note on Auto-Update Drawings in Teamwork: In a Teamwork project, an auto-update Drawing with an external source (e.g. If an auto-update drawing comes from a different source than the currently opened project file, then ARCHICAD will check whether it requires updating or not, and perform an update if necessary. Automatic updates also occur before publishing.

The drawing placed on the layout will be updated automatically when the layout is activated (brought to front or selected for output). All drawings placed in the ARCHICAD project belong to one of the two following types:
