Std LinkImport

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Std LinkImport

Menu location
None
Workbenches
All
Default shortcut
None
Introduced in version
0.19
See also
Std LinkMake, Std LinkMakeRelative, Std LinkImportAll

Description

Std LinkImport imports the DataLinked Object from a Link into the current document, and then changes the attachment to this object.

This operation is helpful when working with assemblies in order to organize re-usable models that may be located in other documents.

Use Std LinkImportAll to import all linked objects.

Usage

  1. Make sure you have a document "A" with an original object, say, a Part Box, and a second document "B" with a Link to that object.
  2. Open document "B" and select the Link to the object; its DataLinked Object should show something like A#Box.
  3. Press Std LinkImport.

The original Part Box must now be inside the current document "B". The DataLinked Object property of the Link must now show Box, indicating that the Link no longer points to Box in document "A", but to the Box object in the current document "B".