{"id":431156,"date":"2025-05-09T09:36:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/discovery-as-external-cad-option-in-workbench-similar-to-spaceclaim\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T09:36:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T09:36:29","slug":"discovery-as-external-cad-option-in-workbench-similar-to-spaceclaim","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/discovery-as-external-cad-option-in-workbench-similar-to-spaceclaim\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery as external CAD option in Workbench, similar to Spaceclaim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to make the option to use as an external CAD also available to Discovery?&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See screenshot below.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The reason is that now for Discovery CAD files, Mechanical makes a local copy of the CAD file, renames it to some generic SYS-&#8230; filename and points to that local copy. The link to the original CAD file is broken.&lt;br&gt;That is unwanted behavior. In case of Spaceclaim and the option &#8220;use a sexternal CAD&#8221; it keeps referencing to the original CAD file without making a local copy.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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?&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance!&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/09-05-2025-1746782837-mceclip0.png\" \/>&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-431156","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_forum_id":["27789"],"_bbp_topic_id":["431156"],"_bbp_subscription":["8685","3452"],"_bbp_author_ip":["45.10.231.154"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["431304"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["431304"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2025-05-12 05:51:23"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["0"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_engagement":["8685","3452"],"_btv_view_count":["390"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"]},"test":"sandersdbengineering-nl"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/431156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/431156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}