A Product Catalog is a collection of classified products organized by type. These catalogs are stored in a shared database and can be browsed through various pages within the app. However, only products from the User Palette can be used during modeling or scripting.
You can open the User Palette from the following places:
Each product type can have an active product. When you use the program menus to add an item, the active product for that type will be used. You can also drag and drop any product from the User Palette into your model.
Important: After making changes, always click โUpdate User Paletteโ to apply them.
You can add products to custom catalogs using two methods:
Note: Resetting the database via the UI restores default data. Resetting via Lua command ResetDataBase
clears all entries, leaving the database empty.
Example: reset and repopulate using Lua:
ResetDataBase()
AddCatalogToDB("MyCatalog")
ResetUserPalette()