# Exporting or saving components of a complex drawing to a new drawing to work on seperatly

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/exporting-or-saving-components-of-a-complex-drawing-to-a-new-drawing-to-work-on-seperatly/23070>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [December 17, 2022, 12:33pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/exporting-or-saving-components-of-a-complex-drawing-to-a-new-drawing-to-work-on-seperatly/23070 "2022-12-17T12:33:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jayemery](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/jayemery/32/25155_2.png) [@Jayemery](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Jayemery)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 12:33pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/exporting-or-saving-components-of-a-complex-drawing-to-a-new-drawing-to-work-on-seperatly/23070/1 "2022-12-17T12:33:38Z")

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I’m continually amazed but the power of this program and the constant upgrades from when i first started using it are fab. But as my drawings get more complicated and repetitive i find that i need to be able to out components from 1 job or drawing and put them into another. But I’m finding this impossible unless i do the whole thing one of my files is over 200mb and has the collection of all the ovens i make on it. I would like to be able to select one of the ovens in that drawing and import it into another new drawing but each time i try it imports the whole file all 233mb

I have tried hiding everything i don’t need. But then even when it only shows the product i want in the display screen it still uploads the whole file

I would like to be able to select just one layer with that 1 product on it can any one help

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**Author:** ![Zecnarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Zecnarf](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Zecnarf)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 1:58pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/exporting-or-saving-components-of-a-complex-drawing-to-a-new-drawing-to-work-on-seperatly/23070/2 "2022-12-17T13:58:11Z")

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only the shapr3 format doesn’t allow you to hide then export a single file……use one of the other file types.

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**Author:** ![Istvan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/istvan/32/23668_2.png) [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/exporting-or-saving-components-of-a-complex-drawing-to-a-new-drawing-to-work-on-seperatly/23070/3 "2022-12-17T17:38:10Z")

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Select what you want to export, click Isolate, export to X\_T, and import it to another workspace. Visualization data won’t be transferred this way though.

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**Author:** ![Jayemery](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/jayemery/32/25155_2.png) [@Jayemery](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Jayemery)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 9:34pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/exporting-or-saving-components-of-a-complex-drawing-to-a-new-drawing-to-work-on-seperatly/23070/4 "2022-12-19T21:34:04Z")

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Thanks for prompt reply. Took me a while to locate the isolate button in the bottom of the items menue but this should solve a lot of the problems I’ve been having look forward to trying it

Bingo. Thanks