If a project label, archive document or file with the same name as one of the imported project already exists in Vertex, you can select which project's entries are imported. A dialog box will open where you can select imported files.
Correspondingly you can select imported files when you are importing a model with drawings.
Dialog Box Options
- Imported entries of project
- When importing a project, this list is displayed if there is a project label, archive document or file with the same name as one of the imported project already exists in Vertex.
- On the left side there are files found on the system with the same name as one of the project, and on the right side there is entire imported project.
- If there isn't already a project, archive documents or files with the same name in the system, this dialog box will not be displayed.
- Imported entries of project
- When importing a project, this list is displayed if there is a project label, archive document or file with the same name as one of the imported project already exists in Vertex.
- On the left side there are files found on the system with the same name as one of the project, and on the right side there is entire imported project.
- Selecting Imported Files
- You can select the imported files by clicking the symbol that toggles between and .
- When importing a project and a label with the same name already exists, the meaning of the symbols displayed next to each other is following:
- File existing in the system
- File is replaced by the imported file.
- File is kept.
- File is deleted. File is not replaced. You must not remove model drawing.
- If you remove a model drawing from the archive by selecting the pair of symbols , data of the attached drawing remains in the model. However, you can not open the drawing in the working window. Instead of remove, you can replace the drawing with a new one or keep the drawing.
- If the list includes several files you can make the same kind of symbol selection, do as follows:
- Select files in list as follows:
- Select one file by clicking with the left mouse button.
- Select more than one item by holding down the Ctrl key while selecting by clicking the left mouse button.
- Select the desired range from the list by holding down Shift and clicking the start and end of the range with the left mouse button.
- Select all by pressing Ctrl+A.
- Switch to a similar import method for all the selected files by clicking the symbol column while pressing the Ctrl key.
- Type
- This field contains the type of the file:
- Project - Vertex project.
- Drawing - Archived Vertex drawing.
- Model - Archived Vertex model.
- Database - Vertex database.
- File - Vertex model or drawing saved with the file name, or other file type.
- Code
- This field contains the ID of the project, the label of the archive document or database name.
- Name
- This field contains the file name of the model, drawing, Vertex database or other file type.
- Vertex databases comprise the following:
- Project archives data - PRODATA
- Model archives data - MODREG
- Model revision data - MOD_REV
- Drawing archives data - PICREG
- Drawing revision data - PIC_REV
- Date
- This field contains the date on which the file was edited last.