rgardner Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 Hi Guys. Hope all are doing well on this Wednesday. I am just starting to work with a new builder who had an "in-house cad expert" who is no longer doing their work. As I am trying to get setup and a system built with them they sent me their .calibz file with all of their pre-done cad details which need a little tweaking but by most standards are not too bad and useable. However when I import the library the majority of the details are just blank squares. One of the details imported fine, but it does not look like their others (I have a printed pdf version that they had marked up looking to make some tweaks to the details and am able to see what they should look like.) Anyone know a trick that I don't for this. I tried turning on all layers and added it to a cad detail page but it just places like an empty box. Explode it and nothing. Is this just a corrupted library? WhyamIblankdetail.calibz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumbleChief Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 I get a single blank detail named Basement Bearing Wall so I think the answer to your question is yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Carrick Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 Check the displayed layers. They might be on a layer you don't have displayed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 Looks like what they sent you was Blocked PDF references. They need to send you the referenced PDF files too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgardner Posted January 15, 2020 Author Share Posted January 15, 2020 24 minutes ago, Alaskan_Son said: Looks like what they sent you was Blocked PDF references. They need to send you the referenced PDF files too. This is what I was kind of thinking it might be. That would make sense as the one detail that is showing up looks like it was done from a Chief stock detail and customized. Doesn’t look like the mid other details. So then... Once I have those pdf files they just need to be put in the same folder as the layout /plan file or how are they referenced? Kind of a bummer to make any major changes job per job... looks like I may be redrafting 65 details.. Their current tech guy who knows the very basic said they were just taking screen grabs and using them as a pdf pic detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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