Use this procedure to copy mask block definitions from your current drawing to another drawing. After you create the definition, you edit the definition properties to customize the characteristics of the definition.
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The Style Manager is displayed, with the current drawing expanded in the tree view.
- On the File menu, click Open drawing to browse for the drawing to which you want to copy the definition.
- Select the drawing that you want to copy the definition to, and click Open.
The drawing opens in the Style Manager.
- In the current drawing, Expand Multi-Purpose Objects, and expand Mask Block Definitions.
- Right-click the mask block definition to copy to the second drawing, and click Copy.
- Select the second drawing, and expand Multi-Purpose Objects.
- Right-click Mask Block Definitions, and click Paste.
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The definition is copied into the second drawing. If the drawing already contains a definition with the same name, the duplicate names are displayed in the Import/Export - Duplicate Names Found dialog box.
- To resolve duplicate names, select one of the following options:
- To not replace the existing definition in the drawing with the new definition of the same name, click Leave Existing, and click OK.
- To replace the existing definition in the drawing with the new definition, click Overwrite Existing, and click OK.
- To rename the new definition so both definitions exist in the drawing, click Rename to Unique, and click OK. New definition names are appended with a numeral in the Style Manager.
- Click OK.