Job Standards: Copy to Global ( Utility Functions )

• Job standard details are drawings that are maintained in your current Job .
• Global standard details can be used in any Job that can access the data directory used by your current version of this program. They are a permanent library of drawings that you can add to other drawings no matter what Job you are in.
• The Copy Job Standards to Global Standards utility lets you change copies of job standard details into global standard details .
• The number or names of job standard details currently in your Job does not change as a result of your using this utility.
• See (on this page):
  
  
  • Step-by-step instructions
    • Start up the utility
    • Select the job standards you want to copy

Also see :

• Creating standard details
• Change File Sizes (to allocate space for global standards)
• Project Items List (utility that gets you a list of global/job standards)
• Exporting from your current Job (index)

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Step-by-step instructions :

1 . Start Copy Job Standards to Global Standards using any one (1) of the following methods:

Method 1 : Home > Utilities > Utility Functions > Copy Job to Global > Job Standards: Copy to Global . If prompted to do so, enter the " Utility Password " that has been set up for your network.

Method 2 : In Modeling (classic) or the Drawing Editor (classic), choose Utility > Copy > Copy Job Standards to Global Standards .

2 . A selection dialog opens. On it is a list of the job standard details in your current Job .

ANCHOR BOLT  CALLOUT1  CALLOUT2  MATCH LINE  REF POINT

If there are no job standard details in your current Job, you will be notified of such, and this operation will end without the selection dialog being opened.

Alternative 1 : Select the names of the job standard details that you want to be copied as global standard details, then press the " OK " button at the bottom of this selection dialog. Go to step 3.

Alternative 2 : Press the " Cancel " button to end the Copy Job Standards to Global Standards operation. Do not continue.

3 . The job standard details selected in step 2 continue to exist in your Job as job standard details and copies of these same job standard details are now global standard details . This means that they can be used by any Job that you can open in your current version of this program.

Tip: Use the Project Items List utility to confirm that this change has indeed taken place.

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