(2021-02-18, 18:44)N. W. Perry Wrote: Once you're sure the hose is finished and you're ready to move into Studio:
1. Go into the editing session for the hose itself (easiest way is to double-click on the hose while NOT in nested mode, or you can click on the session name in the upper right and choose it from the drop-down, or you can click into it from the File Content part bin).
2. Go to Session->Duplicate this subfile… and choose "New file" from the dialog that opens.
3. A standalone file containing just the hose now opens. Go to Save or Save as… and give the file a name ending with .dat (not .ldr).
If you place this file in your custom parts directory for Studio, it will now appear in the Custom Parts palette in that program. By far the most difficult part of the process is locating the Custom Parts directory, if you don't already know where it is, since it is a hidden folder. On the Mac it's at /Users/{your username}/.local/share/Stud.io/CustomParts/parts and on PC it's something like C:\Users\{your username}\AppData\Local\Stud.io.
If you've never created a custom part using Part Designer, the custom directory may not exist yet. In that case (or if you simply can't find the directory), you can import the .dat file into Part Designer, then save it as a Studio part. This should create the custom parts directory, so in the future you can just stick parts in there and they will open right up in Studio without needing to be imported via Part Designer (unless you want to add Studio snap or collision info).
Thank you! Very kind. I have almost finished my instructions now, will post a link to them when I'm done.