Hyperlinks?

[steve.williams]

Anyone have experience with hyperlinks? One of my customers is asking:

1: Is there a way to use relative paths for Hyperlinks. We created a
model with Hyperlinks and have been asked to send the model out, the
Hyperlinks reference absolute path statements and do not work off our
server.

2: Is there a best practices for adding Hyperlinks? I have a user that
added Hyperlinks in the NWF file and then made changes to his DWG, when the
model was reopened the links where broken. Navisworks support said that the
handles in the dwg changed. Many times the drawing associated with models
change, so in what file should the designers be adding the Hyperlinks?

Thanks,
Steve

[david.kingham]

For relative path hyperlinks just use ..\file.txt

The ..\ signifies the current directory of the nwf, you can also add subfolders, for example ..\Subfolder\file.txt

I have no advice for best practices though

[dgorsman]

You might want to consider adding hyperlinks in the model file itself, rather than the NWF, or waiting for the design process to proceed a bit further before adding them.

You might be able to run the hyperlinks from a database, using some unique object descriptor as a look-up key rather than an object handle, but that is pure blue-sky speculation.