Exporting Custom Resources

If you create custom resources and reuse them frequently, you may want to organize them into resource libraries. You and other users can add the libraries to the Resource Browser favorites, or add them to the default content, and then easily use resources from them. (For more information about resources, see Resource Libraries.)

In the Vectorworks Design Series products, use the export function of the Resource Browser to export one or more resources from the current document to another file, without opening the file. If an older version of the resource is already in the target document, it can be updated with the new version.

To export resources:

1. In the Resource Browser, select the resource to export.

2. Select Export from the Resources menu. Alternatively, right-click (Windows) or Ctrl-click (Mac) on the resource and select Export Resource from the context menu.

The Export Resource dialog box opens.

Click to show/hide the parameters.

Parameter	Description
Destination list	Displays Recent Export Files, Libraries, and Currently Open files. Either select a file from the window and click OK, or click Browse to select a file from another location. If the resource is to be exported to one of the default content folders within the user folder (Libraries\Defaults), place the file within a subfolder if one exists.
Browse	Specifies a different location for the exported resource
Preserve folder hierarchy	During export, maintains the same folder structure the exported resource had in its source file

3. Click OK.

If the target file already contains a resource with the same name, the Resource Name Conflict dialog box opens with three options: replace the resource, rename the resource, or do not export that resource (any other selected resources will be exported, if there are no further name conflicts). Select an option, and then click OK.

If there is a name conflict between two resources of different types (such as a symbol and an image), the option to replace the resource in the target file is not available.

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