Use this procedure to import a mask block definition from 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 that contains the definition that you want to copy to your current drawing.
- Select the drawing with the definition to copy, and click Open.
- Expand Multi-Purpose Objects, and expand Mask Block Definitions.
- Right-click the mask block definition to copy, and click Copy.
- Select the current drawing, and expand Multi-Purpose Objects.
- Right-click Mask Block Definitions, and click Paste.
The definition is copied into the current drawing. If the current 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, select Leave Existing, and click OK.
- To replace the existing definition in the drawing with the new definition, select Overwrite Existing, and click OK.
- To rename the new definition so both definitions exist in the drawing, select Rename to Unique, and click OK. New definition names are appended with a numeral in the Style Manager.
- Click OK.