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I'm trying to import a 3D model into Flare. I had to have one of our developers convert a .stl file into .u3d so that Flare would recognize it. It isn't working in the build. After looking at the forum here, I only found a handful of posts relating to importing 3D models. Is anyone out there using t...

Thanks David. That worked.

I tried this and it built. I was expecting to see parent/child links in the TOC for the embedded topics but I didn't see that. Unless I'm missing something simple and obvious, I don't see how this is much different than just having a bunch of H2s under the main topic. When I used DITA, what embeddin...

One of the case studies, cleverbridge, has an example help center. In that help center there is a drop down menu that launches different help centers based on your selection. I'm interested in seeing how that is done? Is that part of the standard Flare options? I can't seem to find it in the doc.

Thanks for the responses.

Flare newbie question here.

Is there any way to have a hybrid view of the the Editor view?

I'm coming from an Arbortext background and I liked seeing the tags in the Editor in this manner:

I don't know if it is by design or not, but I was able to put a micro content tag inside another one in the XML editor view. I had to add the micro content manually in the MC window, but they both generated ok. That would solve my use case where I want a larger snippet for the search result and a sm...

I've been looking for information on this very topic. The micro content webinar didn't go into it beyond the generic bullet point that it can be done. Same with the Flare documentation. MadCap hasn't responded to me queries yet, and based on this thread I guess I'm not too surprised. I I've been pla...

I can tell you that I know first hand that for a variety of reasons the documentation team at PTC did not use Windchill as a source repository for documentation files.

I think I know exactly what you are after. I'm new to Flare as well and am also curious if it can be done. I had a similar use case at a previous job where we used Arbortext (DITA). It was an extremely large developer guide that we included in the help center. I had extremely large sections of docum...

Thanks for the clarification. Like I said, I'm just starting to learn the product.

I'm new to MadCap Flare and I'm experimenting with some of the features. I want to make use of the expanding text feature and have a H2 expand to show a procedure. I haven't quite got it to do what I want it to do/think it should do. I've got these two implementations. In the first the text isn't sh...