Overview of Exporting Objects
Export is accomplished by initially selecting CAD objects in your active workspace (embedded browser only), using collection rules to add related objects to the set, defining a target directory for the exported objects, and specifying additional options for how the objects should be handled by the system upon committing the export.
The following are important aspects of export:
• While objects are being exported, Creo Parametric session is frozen.
• Setting a preference allows you to specify that secondary (attached) content is transferred along with the primary file.
• One object can cause the failure of an entire export. Conflicts are reported in the Event Management utility.
• If the object already exists in the commonspace or workspace, its status is shown in status columns.
Export supports the following operations:
• Dependency processing
• Target location setting
• Optionally confirming the list of objects to be exported
• Ability to also attach secondary content from the local directory (by setting a preference)
• Automatic download of objects not currently in the workspace (by setting a preference)
• Electing whether to overwrite or reuse objects that already exist in the target location
To export objects from a workspace, you can use either the Basic mode or the Advanced mode of collection. In the Basic mode, you can specify rules that determine what set of objects are to be included in the export in addition to the initially selected objects. In the Advanced mode, you can use collection and configuration tools to incrementally add or remove objects to or from a table listing of objects, prior to committing the action. You can move from one tab to the other; however, returning to the Basic tab may remove objects you have collected while using the Advanced tab.