Once the configuration is complete, you need to save it under a user-defined name and description in a Custom Catalog, much like a Cap Standard. The application creates all valid widths under that configuration name. It also performs cross-checks to ensure that the panel configuration is complete, and all style numbers are valid and available in the current electronic catalog.
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From the File menu select Save.
If you would like to save your configuration to a custom catalog found in the network location, check Show All Projects. -
Select an existing Custom Catalog (.cc4 extension) or create a new one by clicking New.
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Change the Panel name for the configuration.
Note: Since the name appears as a tag on each occurrence of the panel configuration, we recommend entering a short name. For details, use the Description field which will appear in the Part Description column in Worksheet. You should also use a simple naming convention including the product line abbreviation and the number of the panel configuration for that product line within that particular custom catalog, such as TST Panel 1 or TOS Panel 2.
We do not suggest including the height of the panel as part of the configuration name, since you can change the height of the panel later on. Similarly, a name that describes the tiling will limit later editing of the configuration. -
Enter a Description, if you wish, that will appear in the Parts Description column in Worksheet. You can then edit configurations descriptions in Worksheets, but you should do so in Panel Builder for future insertions of a configuration in Worksheet.
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Click OK.
Panel Builder automatically creates all valid widths of the panel configuration. When this process is complete, you will see the Save Panel Configuration window open. -
Click OK to close the Save Panel Configuration window.
You can make this window close automatically by checking Automatically close when finished.
To add this saved configuration to a drawing, see Add a panel configuration to the drawing.
Warning: Maintaining a good one-to-one catalog/drawing relationship is important. Keep this in mind as you save your configurations. Configurations in custom catalogs and their counterparts that have been inserted into drawings are forever linked. When you change a configuration and save it (to its custom catalog), as soon as a drawing with that configuration is opened and updated, all occurrences of that configuration are updated. If you use a configuration in more than one drawing, this will lead to undesired results.
The best practice is to establish a one-to-one relationship between a project and the custom catalog which contains its Panel Builder configurations. If you wish to reuse a configuration in a different project, open the configuration in Panel Builder and use the Save As command to save it into another custom catalog. This way, changing the configuration in one drawing will not impact it in the other.
Since a one-to-one relationship should exist between the drawing and the custom catalog, an additional best practice is to keep the drawing and the custom catalog in the same folder.