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[SPHINX building Design]

Everybody is familiar with the time saving of setting up
a profile plan. Additionally I set up a La1 sheet that is linked
with it. where the problem comes in is when I "save as" the profile plan
and the *.LA1 plan, the LA1 is still linked to the old profile plan.
In a LA1 sheet it will tell you the sheets that are linked to it but it
does not allow you to create a new link. The only solution so far is to
remove the old profile from its directory and have the new project saved
under the first profiles name in a new directory, but this way I end up
with all projects the same name only the directories differend and that's
a bit dangerous. Can somebody please tell me a way to save as both pl1 and
La1 with a new name and retaining the link. It would be a great time saver as
the frames in the LA1 sheet have a lot of differend stteings in regards of
layers turn on or of. I keep my fingers crossed that someone understands
what I am on about and even more that there is a simple way to etablish
a new path for the link.
Thank you, Jan

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[David J. Potter]

Yes I understand your concern and it is only natural for you to want the same performance you get from the profile .pl1 set up. I just addressed it as a "necessary" work-a-round by setting up a layout sheet for a plan (not profile), open it save it as the new plan in it's new directory/folder I am working on, delete the views that are a singularity to the old plan, change the client name, address etc. and go on with it. I started this procedure in V4 and haven't thought about it since till your post. (I even tried to do as you did with the same results back in V4) In the end for future versions to do as you suggest will require someone smarter than me or programming code changes. It is a good idea and you should suggest it formally.
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David J. Potter
Austin, Texas

[This message has been edited by David J. Potter (edited 07 September 1999).]

[fitz]

David, Thanks for your comment.
I have been updating my profile with new stuff as I generate it, but sometimes forget to do some items. Then I wonder where they are.
It makes sense that if I use, say, a new wall style once, probably I will use it again.
In the past I used my latest plan to create a new job but I stopped doing that.
It seems the process would be:
1. Save my latest, most up to date, file to new Folder as new Jobname.
2. Delete prior Drawings, now much easier with group select.
3. Go to Windows Explorer to delete the Pl, PB, CA & CB.0 (Zero) files to create new foundation from scratch.
I am going back to that method so that I will have a new file that is an accumulation of all my latest experience, notes, CAD files, defaults, etc
Have I missed anything?
I love it. Thanks again.
Now I have to get back to reading my manual to figure out how to dimension a monolithic foundation.
Mike Hall
San Diego


[This message has been edited by fitz (edited 09 September 1999).]

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