Design Alert Importing And Exporting

Design Alerts can be saved to a text file to be imported into other model files. This allows the user to quickly load commonly used design alerts into multiple model files.

Export a Design Alert

To export a Design Alert:

  1. Fully define a Design Alert for any parameter in the Design Alert Manager. For this example, we are using a velocity design alert.

  1. From the Other Actions menu, select Save, then save the file with a descriptive name.

Import a Design Alert

  1. Open the Design Alert Manager from the Tools menu.

  2. From the Other Actions menu, select Load, then browse to the saved design alert file.

  1. The Design Alert should now be added to the Existing Design Alerts list, and can be applied to objects in the model.