After exporting the selected data from Smart Reference Data into text files, you can use the CADWorx Importer to load the catalog and specification data files into a project file, which can be opened in the CADWorx application and reviewed in the Spec Editor.
If a file’s content already exists in the project file, the respective data should be replaced. You must not provide all files with each import. For example, once you change or add a specification in Smart Reference Data, but the catalog did not change, you can choose to only transfer the specification header and specification item file, containing only the changed specifications. In this case, the catalog information in the project should remain.
The importer gets a complete set of data at the leaf nodes in the exported files. For example, a size table file coming from Smart Reference Data contains two size tables named SIZE1 and SIZE3, and in the project file there are already the size tables SIZE1, SIZE2, and SIZE3. The importer deletes the contents of SIZE1 and SIZE3 and replaces them with the contents of the new file. The importer will not check the nominal size rows inside SIZE1 or SIZE3, if the same combination already exists, or if they have the same number of rows. SIZE2 table in the project will remain untouched in this example.
Another example: If there are specification components of specifications 150 and 300 in the specification item file, the importer deletes all their components (specification items) from the project and replaces them with the file content. The specifications 600 and 900, which are also in the same CADWorx project, are not touched. Additionally, the specification header and branch table of specifications 150 and 300 do not change, as long the import does not find a header file /branch file with the export.