Hi Mike,

When I do it as you describe then I have a catalog item in my item folders. When I want to use it again with different dimensions and double click on it I get the "add items" dialog instead of the pattern takeoff dialog. 

It concerns CID 309. There are 4 parts. By defalult, I only want to use parts 1 and 2. I want parts 3 and 4 to "not cut" in the pattern takeoff dialog by default. In your way I have to right click in the item folder and then click edit instead of just double click for the takeoff dialog. This way I would have to double click for some patterns and some right click+edit in the item folder before the takeoff dialog.