AutoCAD Architecture 2011 User's Guide (English) - Autodesk

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AutoCAD Architecture 2011
User's Guide
March 2010
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Contents
Workflow and User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 1 New Features and Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
New Features in AutoCAD Architecture 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Productivity Tools for Grids and Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Renovation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Wall Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Geometric Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
A Quick Start for Transitioning from AutoCAD to AutoCAD
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Autodesk Training Programs and Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Autodesk Authorized Training Centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Autodesk Official Training Courseware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Autodesk Certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
e-Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Contacting Autodesk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Sales Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Chapter 2 The Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Changes to the Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
The Workspace Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
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Workspace Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
The Ribbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
The Application Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
The Quick Access Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Context Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Tool Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Properties Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Drawing Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Application Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Project Navigator Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Finding Information in AutoCAD Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
InfoCenter Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
F1 Context Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Tooltips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Working with Objects in the Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Adding Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Modifying Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
View and Navigation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Quick View Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
ViewCube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
SteeringWheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
ShowMotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Working with Tool Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Opening the Tool Palettes Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Controlling the Appearance of the Tool Palettes Set . . . . . . . . 81
Specifying Different Tool Palettes for the Tool Palettes Set . . . . . 83
Creating a New Tool Palettes Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Creating a New Tool Palettes Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Creating a New Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Defining the Appearance of Tool Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Adding Text and Separator Lines to Tool Palettes . . . . . . . . . 89
Working with Tool Palettes from a Central Location . . . . . . . . 90
Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Creating an Object with a Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Changing the Tool Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Changing a Tool Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Changing a Tool Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Creating a Tool from an Object in the Drawing . . . . . . . . . . 100
Copying a Tool from a Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Creating a Tool from the Style Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Creating a Tool from AEC Content in DesignCenter . . . . . . . 103
Using Command Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Working with Tools from a Central Location . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Applying the Properties of a Tool to an Existing Object . . . . . 113
Re-Importing Styles for a Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
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Deleting a Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
The Properties Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Opening the Properties Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Setting the Appearance of the Properties Palette . . . . . . . . . 116
The Design Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
The Display Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
The Extended Data Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Worksheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Direct Editing with Grips and Dynamic Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . 123
Grip Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Grip Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Using the CTRL Key with Grips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Trigger Grips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Dynamic Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Grip Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Temporary Grip Coordinate Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Aligning the UCS to an Object Face . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Matching Object Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Styles and Support Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Integration of AutoCAD Architecture and AutoCAD . . . . . . . . . . 135
Chapter 3 Content Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Content Browser Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Exploring the Content Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Viewing a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Using the Items in a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Managing Your Catalog Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Creating a New Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Creating a Tool Catalog from Content Drawings . . . . . . . . . 146
Adding Tools from Content Drawings to a Tool Catalog . . . . . 149
Adding an Existing Tool Catalog to Your Catalog Library . . . . 152
Creating a Catalog Install File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Publishing Tool Catalogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Adding a Website to Your Catalog Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Editing Tool Catalog Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Creating Catalog Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Sorting Catalogs in the Library View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Filtering Catalogs in the Library View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Removing a Tool Catalog or Website Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Opening a Different Catalog Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Renaming a Catalog Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Searching for Items in a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Performing a Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Adding Content to a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Defining Categories in a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Adding a Tool Palette to a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
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Adding a Tool Package to a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Adding Tools to a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Copying and Moving Tool Palettes and Tool Packages . . . . . . 171
Copying and Moving Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Customizing a Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Deleting Tool Catalog Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Using Tool Catalog Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Linked and Unlinked Tool Catalog Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Using a Tool in the AutoCAD Architecture Workspace . . . . . . 176
Copying a Tool Palette to the AutoCAD Architecture
Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Copying a Tool Package to the AutoCAD Architecture
Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Refreshing Linked Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Refreshing Linked Tool Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Specifying Refresh Options for Linked Tool Palettes . . . . . . . 181
Working with Multiple Content Browser Windows . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Opening a Tool Catalog in a New Content Browser
Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Opening Catalog Items in a New Content Browser
Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Dragging Catalog Items Between Content Browser
Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Starting the Content Browser from a Windows Command
Prompt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Chapter 4 Creating and Saving Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
About Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Creating a Drawing from a Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Creating a Drawing Without a Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Opening Legacy Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Saving a Drawing to a Previous Release File Format . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Setting Up a Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Specifying the Drawing Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Creating Annotation Scales and Assigning them to Display
Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Specifying a Layer Standard and a Layer Key Style . . . . . . . . 198
Specifying the Default Display Representations . . . . . . . . . . 201
Specifying AEC Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Changing the AEC Editor Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Changing the AEC Content Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Specifying AEC Object Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Specifying the Display Resolution of Objects with Facets . . . . . 208
Changing the AEC Project Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Sharing Drawings with AutoCAD Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Comparing Methods of Sharing Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
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Generating Proxy Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Exporting a Drawing to AutoCAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Exporting a Drawing to a DXF File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Chapter 5 Interoperability with Other Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Importing and Exporting IFC Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
General Information for Exporting Drawing Files to IFC . . . . . 220
How IFC Files Are Imported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Importing Building Components from Autodesk Inventor . . . . . . . 243
Importing a Building Component into AutoCAD
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Importing LandXML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Schema Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Supported Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
File Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Importing LandXML Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Selecting Layer Keys for LandXML Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Publishing Drawing Files to Autodesk MapGuide . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Published Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Generating a MWX File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
An Overview of the Published Data Structure . . . . . . . . . . . 257
An Overview of the Database Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Publishing Data to Autodesk MapGuide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Exporting Property Set Data to an MDB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Publishing Drawings to DWF and DWFx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Workflow for Publishing Drawings to DWF or DWFx . . . . . . 264
Conditions and Limitations to Publishing Drawings to 3D DWF
or DWFx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Exporting Property Set Data to a DWF or DWFx File . . . . . . . 266
Publishing Property Set Data from External References . . . . . . 267
Property Set Data Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Publishing a 3D DWF or 3D DWFx File with Automatic Property
Set Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Publishing a 3D DWF or 3D DWFx file with User-Defined
Property Set Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Publishing a 2D or 3D DWF or DWFx File with Property Set
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Creating a New Published Property List (PPL) . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Publishing Drawings to PDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Publishing to PDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Exporting Property Set Data to a PDF File . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Publishing Property Set Data from External References . . . . . . 285
Publishing a PDF File with Automatic Property Set Data . . . . . 285
Publishing a PDF with All Property Set Data . . . . . . . . . . . 287
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Chapter 6 Drawing Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Workflow for a Project Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Concepts of Drawing Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
The Project Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Before You Begin: External References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Before You Begin: Working in a Network Environment . . . . . . . . . 302
Project Support Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Specifying the Default Project Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Working with Design Teams Located Remotely . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Opening a Project From a Mapped Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
The Project Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Opening the Project Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Using the Project Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Setting a Project Current . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Creating a New Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Working with Project Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Moving a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Renaming a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Closing All Project Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Electronically Transmitting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Deleting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Closing the Project Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Removing the Project Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Opening a Project from Windows Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
The Project Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Opening the Project Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
The Tabs of the Project Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Using the Project Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
The Drawing Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Displaying the Project Tool Palette Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Displaying the Project Content Browser Library . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Creating a New Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Copying a Level with Assigned Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Changing the Properties of a Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Deleting a Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Changing Levels: Interactions with the Project . . . . . . . . . . 371
Divisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Creating a New Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Changing a Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Deleting a Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Changing Divisions: Interactions with the Project . . . . . . . . 374
Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Creating a Category in the Drawing Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Creating a Category from Windows Explorer . . . . . . . . . . 379
Specifying the Location of Top-Level Categories . . . . . . . . . 381
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Changing the Subcategory of a Project File . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
Deleting a Category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
When To Start with Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
The Role of Constructs in the Building Project . . . . . . . . . . 387
The Content of Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
Creating a New Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Copying Constructs to Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
Converting a Drawing to a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Opening and Closing a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
Dragging Objects into a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
Referencing Elements into Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
Displaying External References of a Construct . . . . . . . . . . 402
Changing the Properties of a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
Electronically Transmitting a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
Deleting a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Converting a Construct to an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
Changing Constructs: Interactions with the Project . . . . . . . 410
Elements in the Building Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
When to Start with Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Processing Elements in the Building Project . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Creating an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Converting a Drawing to an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Opening and Closing an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Dragging Objects into an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
Changing the Properties of an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
Electronically Transmitting an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
Deleting an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Referencing an Element into Another Element . . . . . . . . . . 426
Displaying External References Attached to an Element . . . . . 428
Converting an Element to a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Changing Elements: Interactions with the Project . . . . . . . . 431
Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
When to Start with Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438
Workflow to Create View Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
Creating a New View Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
Displaying External References of a View Drawing . . . . . . . . 444
Opening and Closing a View Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
Creating a Model Space View Drawing from a Callout . . . . . . 448
Changing the Properties of a View Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . 449
Regenerating the View Drawings in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Placing a View Drawing onto a Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Electronically Transmitting a View Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . 452
Deleting a View Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
Creating a Model Space View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
Placing a Model Space View onto a Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
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Changing the Properties of a Model Space View . . . . . . . . . 459
Deleting Model Space Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
Synchronizing View Drawing Layers with Sheet View
Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
Changing Views: Interactions with the Project . . . . . . . . . . 466
Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
When to Start with Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
Creating a Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470
Setting the Properties of the Project Sheet Set . . . . . . . . . . . 473
Creating a Sheet Subset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476
Setting the Properties of a Sheet Subset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
Removing a Sheet Subset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
Importing Sheets into the Sheet Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
Importing the Current Layout as a Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480
Opening and Closing a Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
Changing the Properties of a Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482
Removing a Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482
Deleting a Sheet Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Creating a Sheet View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Opening a Sheet View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
Numbering Sheet Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
Deleting a Sheet View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
Displaying External References of a Sheet Drawing . . . . . . . . 486
Inserting a Sheet List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488
Changing the Sheet List Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
Updating the Sheet List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
Refreshing the Sheet Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
Creating a Sheet Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492
Activating a Sheet Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
Removing a Sheet Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
Electronically Transmitting Sheets and Sheet Sets . . . . . . . . 494
Publishing Sheet Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496
Changing Sheets: Interactions with the Project . . . . . . . . . . 497
Creating a Sheet Set Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
Creating a Sheet Set Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
Creating a Template from Existing Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . 505
Repath the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
Refreshing the Project Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
Object Display in External References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514
Workflow for Annotating a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
Generating Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
Tagging in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
Property Set Data and Schedule Tables in Projects . . . . . . . . 518
Workflow for Creating Title Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
Dimensioning a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
Working with Cut Planes in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534
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