Archive for February, 2012:


Copying between Catalogs for AutoCAD Plant 3D

For a long time, I was under the impression that you couldn’t transfer items between catalogs easily.  However, you can and it’s pretty easy to do. In the Spec Editor application, navigate to the Catalog Editor tab.  Believe or not I missed the first step all those times.  I think that typically I tried to

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PDO Team and ECAD, Inc.

Published by in News, PDO on February 22nd, 2012

We are changing up our site to show a more direct connection to who we are.  A lot of our clients know where our group is from but those of you discovering us recently probably do not. The process and power group at ECAD, Inc. maintains the PDO team site.  We take questions that we

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Setting up Network Catalogs for AutoCAD Plant 3D

One of the common issues that comes up in an office is, “How do I share my custom parts with others?” In today’s post, we are going to look at setting up our catalogs on the network in order to share our design data. Typically, the issue comes up when you start to create custom

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SQL Server Whitepapers

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series AutoCAD Plant 3D on SQL Express

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series AutoCAD Plant 3D on SQL ExpressI ran across these white papers on the forums and thought I’d host them here too.  They cover configuration of SQL Server and migrating a project from SQLite to SQL Server.  

Creating Backups for SQL Express

This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series AutoCAD Plant 3D on SQL Express

This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series AutoCAD Plant 3D on SQL ExpressOnce you have your database server up and running and connected to user computers, you have to figure out a way to do backups.   While you can manage backup through Management Studio, I was able to find and modify

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