Background

The Exchange Catalog tool was introduced in Promis.e and Bentley Substation V8i SELECTseries 5.

It is used to replace all the symbols in the entire project, or just the Schematic Mode symbols in a project, with symbols of the same names found in the Catalog Paths of a specified setup configuration. Symbols without a definition found in the catalogs are not replaced.

Uses for the Exchange Catalog tool include:

  • Switch the symbols in a project to a different standard.
  • Update all symbols with the latest definitions.
  • Replace a subset of symbols known to be a problem. This requires creating a setup configuration that includes only catalogs containing symbols to be replaced.

To start the Exchange Catalog tool

V8i SELECTseries 5 through 8

From the Tasks or ribbon area, select Review/Revise > *Replace > Exchange Catalog


* is used to denote a menu selection that is not necessary for some versions or platforms.