Copy Job Standards to Global Standards ( Utility Functions )

• Job standard details are drawings that are maintained in your current Job .
• Global standard details can be Opened in any Job.
• Global standards are thus 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 and names of job standard details currently in your Job do not change as a result of your using this utility.
• Step-by-step instructions
  
  
  • Start up the utility
  • Select the job standards you want to copy

Also see :

• Creating standard details
• Project Items List (utility that gets you a list of global/job standards)

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Step-by-step instructions :

1 . Start up 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 .

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 all job standard details in your current Job .

ANCHOR BOLT  CALLOUT1  CALLOUT2  MATCH LINE  REF POINT

Note: 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 any Job that you can change to in your current version of this program can use them.

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

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