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Import Hatch Styles

1. To open the Catalog Manager, select the Catalog tab. Then click the Catalog Manager button . The Catalog Manager dialog box comes into view.
2. In the File section of the Catalog tab, click the Import button . Then select the type of file that you want to import.
• Import from Project — In the Open dialog box, browse the network or your PC and select the project file to import. Then click Open. The Importing dialog box comes into view.
• Import from Catalog File — In the Open dialog box, browse the network or your PC and select the catalog file to import. Then click Open. The Importing dialog box comes into view.

NOTE: For information about how the Importing dialog box organizes hatch styles that it imports, click Figure: Importing Hatch Styles from a Project File and Figure: Importing Hatch Styles from a Catalog File.

Figure: Importing Hatch Styles from a Project File



Table:     Importing Tools from a Project File

Figure Label	Name	Description
	Importing Catalog Items section.	Shows the hatch styles in their folders based on the type of file from which you import them.
	Import a project file.	If you import hatch styles from a project file, by default the Importing dialog box puts these hatch styles in the My Hatch Styles folder.
	Clear a selection.	You can clear the selection for a hatch style that you do not want to import.
	Click OK.	When you click OK, the Importing dialog box imports the hatch styles into your hatch style catalog. By default, it puts the hatch styles in the same folders that you see in the Importing Catalog Items section of this dialog box.

Figure: Importing Hatch Styles from a Catalog File



Table:     Importing Tools from a Catalog File

Figure Label	Name	Description
	Importing Catalog Items section.	Shows the hatch styles in their folders based on the type of file from which you import them.
	Import a catalog file.	If you import hatch styles from a catalog file, by default the Importing dialog box keeps these hatch styles in the folders in which they were initially specified in the catalog file. For example, there are hatch styles in the My Hatch Styles folder and the My Custom Hatch Styles folder.
	Clear a selection.	You can clear the selection for a hatch style that you do not want to import.
	Click OK.	When you click OK, the Importing dialog box imports the hatch styles into your hatch style catalog. By default, it puts the hatch styles in the same folders that you see in the Importing Catalog Items section of this dialog box.

NOTE: If a version conflict occurs while you are importing hatch styles, the Importing dialog box shows a drop-down list adjacent to each hatch style that contains a version conflict. Refer to Resolve Version Conflicts to correct this problem. Then continue with the To Import Hatch Styles into the Catalog Manager procedure.

3. Optional. In the Importing Catalog Items section of the Importing dialog box, clear the selection for hatch styles that you do not want to import.
4. Optional. If you want to import hatch styles into a different folder, do the procedure that follows.
1. In the Catalog Items section of the Importing dialog box, select Choose New Destination Folder.
2. You can use the drop-down list to select an existing folder from your Hatch Style Catalog or you can type a new folder name.
3. Click Apply. The Importing dialog box shows the new folder or existing folder to which it imports the hatch styles.
5. To import the selected hatch styles into your hatch style catalog, click OK.
6. Examine all the hatch styles that you imported into the Catalogs pane of the Catalog Manager dialog box. Make sure that all the hatch styles that were added and updated during the import are correct.
7. Click Apply to save your changes to the Hatch Style Catalog.

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