418 — Exporting one panel, or one site¶
Sending a single thing rather than the whole project.
Note
This lesson also exists in the browser. Work it in ConstructiVision on the web — same steps, same values, so you can follow either and end up with the same panel.
Where they are¶
Export → Panel (.cvpanel) and Export → Site (.cvsite). They complete the family:
.cvp is the whole project, .cvt
is a template, and these two are one piece each.
The panel export is complete¶
All 21 entity groups are included (openings, blockouts, features, structural, etc.).
Twenty-one is not a coincidence — it is every group in
Program Options. A .cvpanel carries the whole panel, not a summary
of it.
Import into any project with File → Import CV File to add this panel.
So a panel you got right once can be moved into any other job. That is the practical use: a panel type you have already solved becomes reusable without exporting the project it came from.
The site export needs a site¶
Open it on a project with no site plan and it says so:
No site plan exists for this project. Use Site → Site Setup to create one first.
Same refusal as the site DXF, and the same reason it is right: an empty site file looks like a working export until somebody opens it.
The two are not symmetric. A panel always exists to export; a site has to be built first — see Site Setup.
Which one do you want?¶
What to take away¶
Export a panel to reuse it elsewhere; export a site to move the layout. If the site export refuses, you have not built one yet — that is the message, not a fault.