MEP set up transfered to another project

[Conrado Dominguez]

MEP Qustion.

How do we transfer the MEP System set up as shown on a project Attributes to another project.

In other word, I have the set up for MEP in one .pln file and I do not want to re-invent the wheel again to apply the same criteria to a .pln created before MEP was around.

Conrado

[Erika Epstein]

Are you referring to your work environment setup that includes the MEP tools? If so you should be able to just switch work environments. Perhaps I am not understanding your question.

[David Maudlin]

Erika:

I believe he is referring to the MEP Systems that define pens, line types, etc. for the MEP systems. I don't know of a way to transfer these settings between files (this was requested during the beta test), I agree that these systems should be transferable between files, as well as the MEP Preferences (duct sizes, pipe sizes, etc).

David

[Erika Epstein]

David, you are so right

[Karl Ottenstein]

Erika and David,

You may recall from the beta that managing these things via Attribute Manager (or similar) is on the wish list for a subsequent MEP release. So, at least the MEP team knows of the need. 😉

Cheers,
Karl

[Conrado Dominguez]

Thanks,
David, you understood correctly my question. I was looking forward to save to a file, similar to the other attributes and then import and overwrite.

This is quite a deficiency in MEP and I hope we get a fix quickly.

Regards,

Conrado

[David Shorter]

I would have thought that favorites could be saved for each tool and loaded into any new project .... or am I not understanding the problem?

[David Maudlin]

David wrote:
I would have thought that favorites could be saved for each tool and loaded into any new project .... or am I not understanding the problem?

The settings Conrado refers to are similar to pen sets: not stored with the objects but referred to by the objects, so the Favorites will not help in this case.

David

[David Shorter]

I see, bit daft not to even have them as an attribute. You can of course build them into a template and have them standard on each new job.

[David Maudlin]

David wrote:
You can of course build them into a template and have them standard on each new job.

True, but not useful when wishing to utilize the settings you have created in one project on another existing project. Even better would be the ability to have various (multiple) MEP Systems that could be move around like pen sets or materials.

David