CityEngine provides means for exchanging projects in collaborative environments. The most efficient way to exchange project data is to create archived projects. An archived project contains all project-specific settings, scenes, rules, and assets.
Export a project to an archive file
To export a project to an archive file, do the following:
- Click File > Export.
- Click General > Archive File.
- Click Next.
You have the following options for exporting a project as an archive file:
- Select resources to export—The project (and resources within that project) to export to the archive.
- Filter Types—Select which file types to export. Use this to restrict the export to only certain file types.
- To Archive File—The path and name of the archive file into which the resources will be exported. Type the path, select a previous path from the drop-down list, or click Browse to select a path and file name in the file system.
- Save in zip format—Exports the file in zip format or Save in tar format exports the file in tar format.
- Compress the contents of the file—Compresses the contents (resources selected to be exported) in the archive that is created.
- Create directory structure for files—Creates a hierarchical folder structure in the file system as it exists in the workspace.
- Create only selected directories—Creates a hierarchical structure in the file system only for selected folders.
Export a project to the local file system
- Click File > Export.
- Click General > File System.
- Click Next.
You have the following options for exporting a project as a local file:
- Select resources to export—The project (and resources within that project) to export to the file system.
- Filter Types—Select which file types to export. Use this to restrict the export to only certain file types.
- To Directory—The directory on the file system into which the resources will be exported. Type the path, select a previous export path from the drop-down list, or click Browse to select a path.
- Overwrite existing files without warning—Determines whether exporting a resource should silently overwrite a resource that already exists in the file system. If this option is off, you will be prompted before a given file is overwritten, in which case you can overwrite the file, skip it, or cancel the export.
- Create directory structure for files—Creates a hierarchy (folder) structure in the file system as it exists in the workspace.
- Create only selected directories—Creates a hierarchy (folder) structure in the file system only for selected folders.