Breaking a design into multiple files

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Donald Thomson
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Breaking a design into multiple files

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On my first go around I messed up and included three distinct rooms, with their own walls and cabinets, in one eCab file because I wanted to nest parts from all three rooms for cutting to get the best material utilization. A result of my lack of understanding of all the capabilities of eCab. I know how to do it in the future, by selecting jobs for nesting inclusion, so material utilization can be maximized in a large project like this.

My question is - can I take the one file/design I've created with three rooms and break it up into three files with one room per file (the way I should have done it in the first place)? :?
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Don Thomson
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Re: Breaking a design into multiple files

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You can take the cabinets and/or parts that make up an area and add it to Batch. Then save that as a separate job file.
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Re: Breaking a design into multiple files

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Make two copies of the file (with different names of course). Edit each of the three jobs to remove two of the rooms and save.
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