Import Catalog

Purpose

Import a Material Catalog into Director. This feature is helpful when sharing Material Catalogs between customers, Branch Truss Specialist, Quality Assurance, and other support personnel.

Steps

To import a catalog:

1. On the Tools tab, click Material Catalogs .

The Material Catalog Setup window displays.

2. Click Import Catalog to import an existing Material Catalog.

The Import Material Catalog window opens.

3. Locate the Material Catalog you want to import and click Open.

Note: When importing a Material Catalog into an existing Material Catalog, a warning displays to ensure that the existing catalog is not accidentally overwritten.

3. Click Overwrite if you want to overwrite the existing catalog.

The catalog is imported.

Notes

  • Existing catalogs are appended with the imported materials (existing materials that are not in the import remain in the catalog).

  • Existing materials that are already in the import aree overwritten with the imported values

  • Project Material Catalogs are imported the same way as Material Catalogs; a Project Material Catalog is a Material Catalog that has been assigned to a project.

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