Discovery as external CAD option in Workbench, similar to Spaceclaim

[SDB Engineering]

Hi,

Is it possible to make the option to use as an external CAD also available to Discovery?

See screenshot below.

The reason is that now for Discovery CAD files, Mechanical makes a local copy of the CAD file, renames it to some generic SYS-... filename and points to that local copy. The link to the original CAD file is broken.
That is unwanted behavior. In case of Spaceclaim and the option "use a sexternal CAD" it keeps referencing to the original CAD file without making a local copy.

Ot is there another way to keep linking to the original CAD file instead of that Mechanical makes a local copy and renames it to SYS-something?

Thanks in advance!

[Charudatta Bandgar]

Hello,

This is not currently possible. The Sys file will be created for every session with Discovery.

Thanks for the suggestion, I will take this to the development and get some insight.

Regards,

Charudatta B