Manage Links

Schematic 3D Integrator User Guide

Integrator Controls : How to Use the Bar Menu : Manage Links

Select Bar Menu > Settings > Manage Links to display this form:

Figure 4:25.

This is an administrative dialogue used to manage Link Worlds. Before using it, create a separate Design Reference database in Admin, and ensure it is current on all MDBs where linking will occur, and all users who need to link can write to it.

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The Manage Links dialogue is shared between Integrator and Compare/Update. Design Reference databases can be written to by 3D, schematic and engineering users.

The list includes all the Design and Design Reference databases available, identifying any that contain links (links created prior to 12.1 reside in Design databases). The following functions are available from the File menu or on a right click context menu.


Create	Create a new Link World in the selected database.
Validate	Output a list of links and any errors to the command line for the selected database.
Validate All	As for Validate for all databases in the list.
Remove invalid references	Remove invalid references from links in the selected database. Invalid references can occur when elements are deleted and the Link World database cannot be updated.
Caution: This operation should be used only when all of the databases holding objects that have been linked are current on the MDB.
Properties	Display the number of links in the selected database.

The Edit menu provides Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete functions to move Link Worlds between databases. You can also drag and drop from one database to another to move or merge a Link World.