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You can work with files in the document life cycle.

File formats supported in Web Client

File Formats Supported in the Graphic View Control

File format

Native application

File extension

Note

CAD

AutoCAD Drawing

.dwg

MicroStation Design File

.dgn

Hexagon 2D Drawings

SmartSketch

.igr

.sma

Smart P&ID

.pid

Smart Orthographic Drawings

.sha

Smart Electrical

.spe

Aspen Basic Engineering

.zyq

Hexagon 3D Models

3D WebGL Rendition

.binz

Smart Review

.vue

A 3D WebGL Rendition (.binz) is required to view this file format in standalone HxGN SDx environments. For more information, see Configure WebGL renditions.

Smart 3D

.zvf

A 3D WebGL Rendition (.binz) is required to view this file format in standalone HxGN SDx environments. For more information, see Configure WebGL renditions.

Streaming 3D Models

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Streamed from the Visualization Data Service (VDS) to HxGN SDx for Project As-Built (PAB).

File Formats Supported in the View and Markup Control

File format

Native application

File extension

CAD

AutoCAD Drawing

.dwg

AutoCAD Drawing Interchange Format

.dxf

MicroStation Design File

.dgn

Image

JPEG File Interchange

.jpg

Microsoft Windows Bitmap

.bmp

Portable Network Graphics

.png

Tagged Image File

.tiff

.tif

Microsoft Office

Excel

.xls

Excel Open XML

.xlsx

Excel (Macros)

.xlsm

PowerPoint

.ppt

PowerPoint Open XML

.pptx

PowerPoint (Macros)

.pptm

Word

.doc

Word Open XML

.docx

Word (Macros)

.docm

Text

Adobe Portable Document Format

This includes markup renditions (PDF) generated from Hexagon 2D drawings (.igr, .pid, .sma, .spe, .sha, and .zyq).

.pdf

Comma Separated Values

.csv

Text

.txt

  • The viewing, conversion, hot spotting, printing, and redlining of files secured with Microsoft Azure Information Protection (AIP), or Information Protection in general (MIP), is not supported. You can attach, store, and manage those protected files with HxGN SDx.

  • The viewer does not support Office 95 or earlier files. You must save such files in later Office versions before working with them.

How do you use the different edit commands?

The following table shows the different edit commands and their capability, which is dependent on the object's state in the revision schema.

Action

What it does

Edit Files or Download and Edit Files

Creates a new document version. Checks out the new version, and downloads it to a client device along with copies of attached files for editing.

Check In

Checks in the files after being checked out for editing using Edit Files.

Replace Files or Revise and Replace Files

Creates a new document version, and allows you to update the document by replacing any attached files.

Manage Files

Updates the existing document version so you can manage the attached files using remove, add, or delete.

Save Target As

Downloads and saves a master file and any files referenced, including any nested reference files, to a client device.

Undo Edit Files

Removes any new version created by the check out. Sets the most previous version back to Working

This option is available for the Document Controller role only.