Linking to External Palettes

Mimic provides you with an initial palette to help get you started. However, you can also link to external palettes. You might want to do this if you are working on a project and have a palette that is saved to an external location that is specific to that project, or if you are sharing a palette with a team.

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How to Link to an External Palette

  1. Select View > Palettes.

    The Palettes window pane opens.

  2. In the local toolbar of the Palettes window pane, click .
  3. In the Open dialog, find and select the palette you want to open.
  4. Click Open. The linked palette opens in the Palettes window pane.

Note If a palette is saved to a common location, such as a network drive, any user who links to the file can make changes to it. When other users save their changes, you will see the changes in your copy of Mimic. Linking to external palettes is a good way to be sure that other members of your team always have the most current version of the file.

However, because any user can make changes, it is possible to easily overwrite a file with undesired edits. You may want to designate one team member to manage all edits to palettes to prevent unwanted changes.

What's Next?

After you create a palette, you can add objects to it. See Adding Objects to Palettes.