diff --git a/database/artix7/settings.sh b/database/artix7/settings.sh
index e0a153a5..d9dde9cd 100644
--- a/database/artix7/settings.sh
+++ b/database/artix7/settings.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+source $(dirname ${BASH_SOURCE[0]})/../../utils/environment.sh
+
 export XRAY_DATABASE="artix7"
 export XRAY_PART="xc7a50tfgg484-1"
 export XRAY_ROI="SLICE_X12Y100:SLICE_X27Y149"
diff --git a/utils/environment.sh b/utils/environment.sh
index e6b3a0bc..c89225dc 100644
--- a/utils/environment.sh
+++ b/utils/environment.sh
@@ -4,13 +4,14 @@ while [ -h "$XRAY_ENV_PATH" ]; do # resolve $XRAY_ENV_PATH until the file is no
   XRAY_ENV_PATH="$(readlink "$XRAY_ENV_PATH")"
   [[ $XRAY_ENV_PATH != /* ]] && XRAY_ENV_PATH="$XRAY_UTILS_DIR/$XRAY_ENV_PATH" # if $XRAY_ENV_PATH was a relative symlink, we need to resolve it relative to the path where the symlink file was located
 done
-XRAY_UTILS_DIR="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$XRAY_ENV_PATH" )" && pwd )"
+export XRAY_UTILS_DIR="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$XRAY_ENV_PATH" )" && pwd )"
 
-XRAY_DIR="$( dirname "$XRAY_UTILS_DIR" )"
-XRAY_DATABASE_DIR="${XRAY_DIR}/database"
-XRAY_TOOLS_DIR="${XRAY_DIR}/build/tools"
+export XRAY_DIR="$( dirname "$XRAY_UTILS_DIR" )"
+export XRAY_DATABASE_DIR="${XRAY_DIR}/database"
+export XRAY_TOOLS_DIR="${XRAY_DIR}/build/tools"
 
-XRAY_GENHEADER="${XRAY_UTILS_DIR}/genheader.sh"
-XRAY_BITREAD="${XRAY_TOOLS_DIR}/bitread"
-XRAY_SEGMATCH="${XRAY_TOOLS_DIR}/segmatch"
-XRAY_SEGPRINT="python2 ${XRAY_UTILS_DIR}/segprint.py"
+export XRAY_GENHEADER="${XRAY_UTILS_DIR}/genheader.sh"
+export XRAY_BITREAD="${XRAY_TOOLS_DIR}/bitread"
+export XRAY_MERGEDB="bash ${XRAY_UTILS_DIR}/mergedb.sh"
+export XRAY_SEGMATCH="${XRAY_TOOLS_DIR}/segmatch"
+export XRAY_SEGPRINT="python2 ${XRAY_UTILS_DIR}/segprint.py"