The Configuration Manager provides a means to rebuild configurations that exist in a drawing when the Custom Catalog for those configurations is not available. The two primary scenarios when this tool is required are:
- File Sharing: You need to open a drawing containing panel configurations on a computer where the Custom Catalogs containing the configurations is not available.
- Data Recovery: A Custom Catalog containing the configurations has been inadvertently deleted or an upgrade to the software prompts for configurations to be recreated to be compatible with the new version.
- From the Cap menu, select Panel Builder Configuration Manager...
The Panel & Power Configuration Manager dialog opens. All panel configurations that exist in the current drawing are listed, as well as the location to the custom catalog in which they are stored. For any configuration for which the custom catalog is not available, the location will indicate.
- Select the configurations listed as (or click the Select All button to select all configurations listed) and click Rebuild Custom Catalog... Which will then open the Rebuild Custom Catalog dialog window.
- Select an existing Custom Catalog in which to store the rebuilt configurations or click the New button to create a new Custom Catalog. Rebuilding to a new custom catalog rebuilds all valid configurations into the new custom catalog. If you are saving existing configurations, it is recommend you re-save the configurations in the catalog from which they originated if possible. Rebuilding into an existing custom catalog redefines existing configurations in the catalog, defines any configurations in the drawing NOT in that custom catalog, and updates the links in the drawing to point to the rebuilt custom catalog. You will receive a warning that rebuilding configurations to the existing custom catalog will corrupt those configurations in OTHER drawings that use the same existing custom catalog. What this means is if you made changes to the configurations in this drawing and re-save the configurations to the same custom catalog and those configurations were also used in another drawing, the other drawing will be affected as well. If you do not want this to happen, click No and rebuild to a new custom catalog instead. Note that if you maintain a single custom catalog per drawing, this situation will not be an issue. However, if other drawings use this configuration, you will have to rebuild the configuration in each of those drawings.
- Click OK in the Rebuild Custom Catalog dialog. A Configuration Rebuild Progress dialog opens and displays the progress of the configurations being rebuilt. When the process is complete, the Panel & Power Configuration Manager dialog returns.
- Click OK to close the dialog.
Update Configurations
Once you have finished rebuilding the configurations to the Custom Catalog, it is recommended that you update the configurations in the drawing.
- From the Cap menu select Panel Builder Update Configurations...
- Click Ok to begin the update.