View Templates — Import and Export

Panel: View Templates | Menu: Import Export

Tools to move view template overrides, view filters and colour fill scheme values between projects through files.

Note the file formats differ: view overrides and view filters use JSON; colour fill scheme values use CSV.

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Export View Overrides

Exports the graphic overrides of selected view templates to a JSON file.

• You select which templates to export.

• Both category overrides and filter overrides are exported for each template — despite the button name, this is not limited to category settings.

• Template-level properties such as view scale, detail level or discipline are not included.

• A save dialog asks where to write the .json file.

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Import View Overrides

Applies overrides from an exported JSON file to the templates in the current project.

• You select the export file.

• Templates are matched by name. Templates in the file with no name match in the target project are skipped.

• Custom subcategories that exist in the source project but not in the target are skipped.

Use when: Standardising graphic overrides across projects that share a template set.

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Export View Filters

Exports the definitions of view filters — rules and categories — to a JSON file.

• You select which filters to export from a list of the filters in the project.

• A save dialog asks where to write the .json file.

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Import View Filters

Creates or updates view filters in the current project from an exported JSON file.

• You select the file; the filters it contains are applied to the current document.

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Export Colour Fill Scheme Values

Exports the entries of one or more colour fill schemes — the values and their colours — to a CSV file.

• You select which colour fill schemes to export.

• Schemes with no entries are reported and skipped.

• A save dialog asks where to write the .csv file.

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Import Colour Fill Scheme Values

Applies colour fill scheme values from a CSV file to a scheme in the current project. This is a four-step wizard, not a single file pick:

1. Select the CSV file to read.

2. Select which scheme in the file to import.

3. Select which scheme in the current model to modify.

4. Select the update mode:

   • update existing values only — colours are updated for entries that already exist in the target scheme; nothing is added;

   • add new and update existing — missing entries are created as well.

Because source and target schemes are chosen separately, the two do not need to share a name.

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Notes

• Import matches templates and filters by name; keep naming consistent between source and target projects.

• The JSON exports are text and can be committed to version control to track project standards over time. The colour scheme CSV can be edited in a spreadsheet before importing.

• These tools transfer settings between existing objects. They do not create templates from scratch.