You can add a drawing to a project to make the drawing available to others, to place it under version control, and to create project objects from objects in the drawing.
While adding a drawing to a project, specify which objects (if any) in the drawing you want to share with others. Those objects are then added to the appropriate Prospector project object collection (such as Surfaces, Alignments, or Pipe Networks) and can be referenced by others.
While adding a drawing to a project, you can specify that associated files, including surface data files, image files, and xrefs, are added to the project. You can also specify whether a .dwf file is created and added to the project for display in drawing item views and the Autodesk Vault Client.
If a drawing containing a surface is added to a project, and the surface references external data files, a folder is created under the drawing to hold those files. The files are placed in the folder, and the surface definition in the drawing is updated to reflect the new (relative) location of the files.
An open drawing must be saved before you can add it to a project. A copy of the drawing is created in your local working folder and the master copy is added to the project.
Tutorial Exercise: Adding a Drawing to the Project
- In Toolspace, on the Prospector tab, expand the Open Drawings collection.
- Right-click the drawing you want to add to the project.
- Click Add to Project.
- On the Select A Project page of the Add To Project wizard, select the project to which you want to add the drawing.
- Click Next.
- On the Select A Drawing Location page of the Add To Project wizard, specify the location of the drawing within the project. Click
to create a new folder. - Click Next.
- On the Drawing File Dependencies page of the Add To Project wizard, specify file dependencies and .dwf creation options.
- Click Next.
- In the Share Data page of the Add To Project wizard, specify which objects in the drawing you want to share with others.
- Click Finish.
