button in the CustomTools toolbar or, by using the CustomTools menu, click CustomTools, Import and select Import SOLIDWORKS Files or Convert Solid Edge Files based on the task you are about to perform with the Import feature.Using the CustomTools Import feature, you can import reference data of your SOLIDWORKS documents to your CustomTools database. Some of the CustomTools tools and features may require that the files' reference data do exist in the database.
You can use the Import feature also to migrate your design data from CustomTools 3.x versions to the newer CustomTools versions.
Click the button in the CustomTools toolbar or, by using the CustomTools menu, click CustomTools, Import and select Import SOLIDWORKS Files or Convert Solid Edge Files based on the task you are about to perform with the Import feature.
The Import dialog box appears.
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NOTE: The Solid Edge file conversion could be executed only when the Import tool is launched through the CustomTools command manager or the CustomTools menu.
To use the Solid Edge file conversion, you need to have at least the Solid Edge ST3 version installed in your workstation. |
| Import | Imports selected files into the current CustomTools database. |
| Add Active Document |
Adds the currently open document into the Files to import list.
NOTE: The Add Active Document button is enabled only if there is at least one open document. |
| Add Files | Select the individual files to import into the database. |
| Add Folder | Import all the files of the specified folder into the database.
Selected files or the files in selected folder appears into the Files to import list. |
| Load From File | Loads the files into the Files to import list from the separate text file.
To load a failed job, locate the desired text file and click Open. |
| Save Failed | Save the list of files which failed to be imported. |
| Delete Selected | Removes the selected files from the Files to import list. The files that you remove will not be imported.
TIP: Hold down the Ctrl key and select the files to be removed from the list of the Files to Import list. |
| Clear List | Clears the file list. |
| Add Folder From Vault | Opens a folder browser that lets you to add files from the desired folder that is located in your PDM data vault. |
| Cancel Operation | Aborts the import process that has been already started. |
| Close | Closes the Import dialog box. |
| Import drawings of 3D models | The drawings related on the models are also imported. |
| Import revision data | Imports existing revision data also with the documents.
NOTE: When you import the revision data of the document that already has a revision table, the existing revision data is compared with the imported data, so the revision data that appears into the revision table is the most recently added. |
| Options | Opens the Define Advanced Drawings Settings dialog box which is used to define advanced importing options. |
| Revision Options | Defines revision data migration settings. |
| Conversion Options | Opens the Solid Edge file conversion options. Use the Conversion Options to customize a Solid Edge file conversion process. |
| Read CT3 custom property meta-data | Reads the meta-data of the document custom properties which have been made with CustomTools 3.x versions. |
| Delete unused CT3 custom property meta-data | Removes the un-necessary meta-data from the SOLIDWORKS document properties while importing documents which are made with the CustomTools version 3.x
Removing the un-necessary data from the document properites decreases the file size and saves space in the storage. NOTE: The meta-data reading and deleting options are necessary only when migrating to from CustomTools 3.x or older versions to the CustomTools 2010 or newer versions. |
| Don't import referenced files that already exist in the database | Files that already exist in the database are skipped on import process. |
| Open and save file in SOLIDWORKS | Opens the imported file with SOLIDWORKS and then saves the file to ensure that the file version stays correct. This option should be selected when importing files which are the most recently saved with an older SOLIDWORKS version and the file versions are used to be updated while importing their data into the CustomTools database. |
| Don't process unmapped sheet formats | Drawings which sheet format is not mapped to any revision table are skipped during the import process. Files which are skipped because of the missing sheet format mapping are marked in the list with the  icon like in other error situations.
The Don't process unmapped sheet formats option is available only when importing revision data of the documents. |
If the importing process fails for some reason, you get prompted to continue the process from the state the last failed process was when an error occurred. A prompt to continue the failed import process appear when the Import tool starts next time after the process has failed.
Files which are in the read-only state can also be imported with the Import tool. In that case, the import tool removes the read-only status from the files until the importing is done. After the import process is complete the read-only status is restored to the files which had it before the import process began.