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Open a file in another app

Hand the drawing or model you have open to another app in the lineup in a new tab — a drawing to the drafting app, a model to the detailing app — without uploading anything.

Written for BimCraft 0.4. The same help is inside the app: press F1.

What you'll do

Carry on with a file in the app made for the next job, without saving it and opening it again.

Steps

  1. Open a DWG or DXF drawing to edit it in the drafting app, or an IFC model to detail it in the detailing app.
  2. Click Edit in CadCraft on the 2D view of a drawing, or Open in DetailCraft in the toolbar of a model.
  3. The other app opens in a new tab with the file already open.

What you should see

  • The file in the new tab. BimCraft keeps it open too.
  • A model with unsaved changes goes over with those changes in it. Your own copy is not saved.
  • A drawing goes over without its linked drawings.

Good to know

  • The file passes between the two tabs inside your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
  • A button only shows when the other app is open where you are and can take a file this way.
  • If nothing opens, the browser blocked the new tab: allow pop-ups for this site and click again.

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