Giza Frame Design Sets
Frame designs created in your drawing can be exported and stored in a design set file. This allows you to quickly reuse frame designs in other drawings without needing to recreate them manually by importing those designs from the design set file. Design sets are specific to a particular manufacturer's catalog. Make sure your active catalog in Giza is set to the manufacturer's catalog for which you are creating frame designs for.
Exporting the Frame Designs
- From the Tools menu select Frame Design... to open the Assign Frames dialog.
- In the Assign Frames dialog, click the Define Frame button.
- In the Frame Designer dialog, click the Export button.
- In the Export Design dialog, click the New button and type a name for your Design Set. You may also choose an existing design set file to export to from the drop down list.
- You may now select the frame designs to export to the Design Set. You may select one or all frame designs.
Note: To select a range of designs, click the first design, then hold down the SHIFT key, and then click the last design in the range. To select a noncontiguous group of designs, hold down the CTRL key and then single click the desired designs.
- Click Export and the frame designs will then be exported to the Design Set file.
Importing the Frame Designs
- From the Tools menu, select Frame Design... to open the Assign Frames dialog.
- In the Assign Frames dialog, click the Define Frame button.
- In the Frame Designer dialog, click the Import button.
- If a message appears that mentions Manufacturer design file has not been specified, just click OK.
- In the Import Design dialog window, set the Import From drop down to Design Set.
- Select the Design set file from the Design Set drop down you wish to import frame designs from.
- Select one or more frame designs to import from the Designs list.
- Click the Import button. The frame designs are now imported and ready to use in your project.