First make sure you have the 3 files from the Related Files folder in your local project and that you unpacked the zip file with PT_Unpack.bat. This is not necessary if you already are working with PlantTools and the configuration files already exists.

As an example we will modify the settings for the Bolt Calculation in PlantExpressTools. We start PlantProjectSetup from the ribbon of PlantExpressTools.

We go to the Bolt Calculation Setup node and then check Activate Bolt Calculation and click on the Apply button.

Then enables various settings.

At the end of Bolt Catalog we click on the Copy icon which copies the Bolt Catalog into the project.

We see the location of the bolt catalog under the ACPlantTools folder.

Click OK to close PlantProjectSetup and check the folder. You see the BoltCatalog.db and the modified the BoltCalculation.xml.

Because of the changes, the ACPlantTools.zip file has to be updated and checked in, so other users can get the changes too.

First, we need to check out the ACPlantTools.zip.

Now the file is checked out.

Now we run the PT_Pack batch file to update the zip file.

A Command Prompt will appear and compress the ACPlantTools folder with its files.

If we look in the zip file we see, that the file has the current date and time. When opening the zip files, we will find the BoltCatalog.db and the updated BoltCalculation.xml.

If we refresh the Project Manager we see the change symbol for our two files.

Now we can check them in for our colleagues.

The files is already selected.

The other users of course need those changes too. They see the red icon in Project Manager which indicates, that there is a newer version available on Vault.

Since there is no Refresh function in Plant 3D to get the latest version we just check out the ACPlantTools.zip file.

Next we run the PT_Unpack.bat file. A command prompt dialog will appear and the expansion will be executed.

Then we can check in the ACPlantTools.zip file again. Or use Undo Check Out.

After this, we have to close the project and open it again or restart Plant 3D to make sure the new files are used.

When opening PlantProjectSetup again, we see, that the Bolt Calculation is enabled and the path is set to the project.

And the BoltCatalog.db and the BoltCaclulation.xml are available as well.