Import many blocks to a project. Import .aia or copy from backpack?

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Dear all,
I searched a way to import let say a sub-project into the main one. The sub-project has about 30 blocks.

To start I tried to see if I could import the .aia file but it doesn't seams to be possible.
As second options I checked with the help of backpack. In this case I can copy all blocks to an empty backpack and paste these all in the main one. So far so good.

The only issue I can't work around is that regardless where in the block space I'm, whichever is the current block highlighted, all the blocks are copied automatically I believe in the middle of the space above other actual block making a mess and at the end make this feature not helping at all.

Is there something I miss in either option?

thanks a lot

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Just drag out the blocks in the backpack to where you want them. May be a bit tedious doing 30 d&d, but you will get them where you want them.

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I prefer the draggable png downloaded block image file approach.

I keep folders of named png files with my aia exports.

P.S. These blocks can be dragged directly into your Blocks Editor workspace.

Dragging blocks

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@ABG Please, could you elaborate this a little more?

I believe I understood the concept... But what exactly is the procedure to start from *.aia and convert this to png named?

TIA :pray:

Lito

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No, I create them in the Blocks Editor, either manually or via the AI2Helper browser extension.

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To be honest, at first I've been full of hope to download the block space as single .png and import one file with all sub block but only later I understood it is a different way of importing block by block...

I don't have an opinion between the 2 metods. For sure saving single blocks is an interesting features more then takin a screenshot for record

Thnaks for support