About Importing Design Sheets
A design sheets file contains the exported sheets data and all the data in the basic design properties file. Therefore, when you import a design sheets file, you import a design sheet with the corresponding artifacts and their parameters.
A design sheets file contains the exported sheets and the following items:
• Internal catalog items
• Central Catalog item references
When you import design sheets, only logical data is compared, graphics are not compared. Sheets are considered modified only when components or their parameters have changed. When design or catalog template graphics is changed, but the parameters are the same, the sheet is not considered modified. However, the sheet graphics are always imported and override the existing graphics.
You can import design sheets from one design to another in four steps:
• Step 1—Select the *.sheets file to import.
• Step 2—Review the new and modified items that are being imported. All items are imported. When the same item exists in the import file and in the design, the imported items override the existing items in the design.
• Step 3—Review the new and modified sheets that are being imported. When the same sheet exists in the import file and in the design, the imported sheet overrides the existing sheet in the design.
• Step 4—Import, the design sheets with all items are imported into the open design.
Remember the following guidelines when importing design sheets files:
• Imported items override the original items.
• System parameters are read only and are not part of the file.
• You can only resolve differences with imported co-shapes.
• When parameter definitions conflict, such as type, value list, value range, constraint state, and description, the import fails.