Lost Drawing Link

Are the Drawing file and model file named EXACTLY the same? If not, the model won't know where to look. The Drawing is linked to the model, so it always finds the proper model to open, but the model is not linked to the Drawing internally.

'Sporky'

" snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com" wrote:

When you right click and "open drawing" SW will say something about not being able to find the model and ask if you would like to find it yourself ( something to that effect ). Simply browse to your drawing and select it. When you save that drawing the references will be updated.

This typically happens when you have models and drawings of differing names, then relocate them with windows explorer. When you tell sw to open the drawing from the model, it looks for its old referenced path name, if its no longer there, sw looks for a drawing in the same directory with the same name as the model. If it finds one, it opens it, if not, it errors.

Thanks for the tips. Sporkman nailed it. I had a space at the end of my dwg filename before the ".slddrw". When I looked at the 2 files in explorer the naming error was obvious. Still not sure how it happened though, as SW defaults to the model's filename on the first drawing save? Fred