Switching Libraries

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How to switch libraries from within a drawing

To change to a different library in a drawing, use the Library on the Home tab as shown below. When you do, the current library will be unloaded, and the new one opened.

This may take some time on slower machines, depending on the size of the libraries involved.

Library Switching

A starter catalog (.qim) and a 'Based on' library (.qil) is provided to all users which are located in the <your ShapeMaster>/Library folder. Library Properties are overwritten with Catalog properties and together they initialise Drawing properties for a new drawing.

When loading a library, by default, ShapeMaster looks for a .qim file as well as a .qil file, and loads them both together. The shape image gallery is the .qiz file.

This makes it possible to duplicate and rename the original ShapeMaster catalog (.qim) file, so that multiple catalogs (.qim) can be used with only one library file (.qil). See topic on the Library Catalog Manager, as this is where you can fully customise catalog files (.qim).