The best practice is to have a single custom catalog associated with a single drawing. However, sometimes you need to associate a custom catalog with a set of drawings, as is the case where the same project spans multiple floors and each floor is a different drawing. When this happens, it is possible to be in one drawing, make a change to a Panel Builder configuration, and then want that change to be reflected in all the other drawings in the project.
When you edit and save an existing panel configuration, all occurrences of that configuration in the Custom Catalog and in the current drawing from which Panel Builder was launched are automatically updated. However, if the configuration is in other drawings, you must open each of those drawings and use the Update Panel Configurations command.
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From the Cap menu, select Cap Panel Builder, Update Panel Configurations.
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Click OK when the Update Configuration dialog opens.
Note: After a drawing's existing configurations have been automatically updated, it is possible that invalid configurations may now be placed on the existing frames. For example, the configuration for an 18" wide panel in the drawing is changed to include a glass skin. Glass is not available in 18" width panels, therefore the updated configuration on the existing 18" panel is invalid. During the update process these invalid configuration assignments (also called orphans) are detected and circled in yellow in the drawing. A tooltip is assigned to the circle which gives an explanation of the error for that specific instance.