Why are automatic drawing sheet links missing?
Why are automatic drawing sheet links missing?
When we upload drawings into Procore, each image is processed with advanced image processing techniques to quickly analyze a drawing and automatically create drawing sheet links for section cut callouts that refer to other drawing sheets.
Ideally, drawing sheet links are properly added to every section cut in your uploaded drawings. However, in order to prevent against accidentally creating incorrect sheet links for "false positives" we've purposely set the threshold for the image processing algorithm to give us the most sheet links without creating any incorrect links.
Several of the most common reasons why the Automatic Drawing Sheet Linking feature cannot add drawing sheet links to your uploaded drawings are highlighted below.
- Drawings in different drawing areas will not link to each other. (e.g. Drawing A-601 in Area 1 will not link to drawing A-602 in Area 2.)
- Section cuts are not recognizable on the sheet. See the following considerations.
- Graphical Interference
- If a section cut is on top of a design element in the drawing (e.g. line, shape, shade, etc.)
- If the drawing numbers bleed over the edge.
- If the drawing has low resolution that resulted in broken or blurry lines.
- If the callout does not have a circle around it.
- If a section cut is on top of a design element in the drawing (e.g. line, shape, shade, etc.)
- Odd Fonts
- If your drawings have a hard-to-read font
- If your drawings have a hard-to-read font
- AutoCAD Formatting
- AutoCAD users should turn off the "text as comments" feature before publishing a PDF for use in Procore. Exporting your drawings as a PDF with this feature enabled may impact Procore Drawings tool OCR.
- To do so, navigate to the command line in AutoCAD. Enter EPDFSHX and change the value to zero (0).
- AutoCAD users should turn off the "text as comments" feature before publishing a PDF for use in Procore. Exporting your drawings as a PDF with this feature enabled may impact Procore Drawings tool OCR.
- Graphical Interference