Identifying the Status of Drawings
After you specify the review and project folders on the Setup tab and choose to automatically match drawings, icons
next to the drawing names change, based on the status of the drawing as shown.
Description
Icon
The initial state of all review drawings is unmatched. The exclamation mark indicates that there has
been no attempt to match the review drawings to the project drawings.
A review drawing is matched but is not the current selection.
A review drawing that is an exact match to a project drawing. The down arrow icon appears only when
you select this review drawing.
A project drawing that is an exact match to a review drawing. This indicates that the review drawing is
a modification of the project drawing. The up arrow icon appears only when you select this review
drawing.
No match for a review drawing is found in the project folder during the automatic matching process.
The review drawing is specifically excluded from comparison by the user. This occurs either because it
is a new file, not yet incorporated into the project, or because it has been renamed and no corresponding
project file can be found. New or renamed drawings are identified as “no match.”
Matching Drawings Automatically
Use this procedure to have Drawing Compare match all the drawings in the review folder to corresponding drawings
in the project folder. When you select the automatic matching option, the software attempts to match drawings that
have the exact file name. Files are matched to determine which review drawings are modifications of the corresponding
project drawings, and which review drawings are entirely new.
NOTE It is strongly recommended that you use the automatic matching option for most use cases. Only use the match
drawings manually option when the review drawing has been renamed, or if you want to compare a smaller set of drawings.
The matching process looks at both host drawings and any drawings nested within them as external references (xrefs).
The matching process does not take xref relationships into account. Rather, the process looks at each review drawing
to verify whether it is a modified version of a project drawing. If so, the 2 drawing files are matched. Drawing Compare
displays the differences between the project drawing and its modified review drawing.
A pair of files is matched when they represent the same file, with one element of the pair in the project folder and one
in the review folder. When this condition is not met, the files are unmatched. Matching allows for replacing an xrefed
project drawing with its modified review drawing when appropriate. Unanticipated results can occur, depending on
whether the file is xrefed using a full or relative path. Xrefs that are specified with full paths may not resolve properly
if their context is moved, which is what may occur in the case of a drawing review folder. When the matching process
is complete, xrefs can be resolved predictably using review content. If you want to affect the results of the comparison,
use the exclude or include options instead.
NOTE For accurate results, always allow the Drawing Compare process to finish.
A file excluded from Drawing Comparison will act as if it, and all its xrefs, are exact copies of the originals. Objects in
excluded files (or xrefed by excluded files) will appear as unmodified. You should not unmatch files that you do not
want to include in a comparison. Exclude the files instead.
A file is missing if it appears in the project folder but there is no corresponding review folder file. A missing review file
is assumed to be unmodified.
In the Select Folders section of the Setup tab, if you select a review folder after you already specified a review or project
folder, the Confirm Automatic Matching dialog box is displayed. If you choose a different project or review folder, click
No and specify a new folder to continue.
IMPORTANT You cannot use the AutoCAD Undo command while you are engaged in a Drawing Compare session.
The results of the matching are indicated by the icon associated with the drawing. Visual cues, such as an exclamation
mark or a circle with a slash through it, indicate the status of the drawings. For more information, see “
Identifying the
Status of Drawings
” on page 389.
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Summary of Contents for 00128-051462-9310 - AUTOCAD 2008 COMM UPG FRM 2005 DVD
Page 1: ...AutoCAD Architecture 2008 User s Guide 2007 ...
Page 4: ...1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
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Page 41: ...Workflow and User Interface 1 1 ...
Page 42: ...2 Chapter 1 Workflow and User Interface ...
Page 146: ...106 Chapter 3 Content Browser ...
Page 164: ...124 Chapter 4 Creating and Saving Drawings ...
Page 370: ...330 Chapter 6 Drawing Management ...
Page 440: ...400 Chapter 8 Drawing Compare ...
Page 528: ...488 Chapter 10 Display System ...
Page 540: ...500 Chapter 11 Style Manager ...
Page 612: ...572 Chapter 13 Content Creation Guidelines ...
Page 613: ...Conceptual Design 2 573 ...
Page 614: ...574 Chapter 14 Conceptual Design ...
Page 678: ...638 Chapter 16 ObjectViewer ...
Page 683: ...Designing with Architectural Objects 3 643 ...
Page 684: ...644 Chapter 18 Designing with Architectural Objects ...
Page 788: ...748 Chapter 18 Walls ...
Page 942: ...902 Chapter 19 Curtain Walls ...
Page 1042: ...1002 Chapter 21 AEC Polygons ...
Page 1052: ...Changing a door width 1012 Chapter 22 Doors ...
Page 1106: ...Changing a window width 1066 Chapter 23 Windows ...
Page 1172: ...1132 Chapter 24 Openings ...
Page 1226: ...Using grips to change the flight width of a spiral stair run 1186 Chapter 25 Stairs ...
Page 1368: ...Using the Angle grip to edit slab slope 1328 Chapter 28 Slabs and Roof Slabs ...
Page 1491: ...Design Utilities 4 1451 ...
Page 1492: ...1452 Chapter 30 Design Utilities ...
Page 1536: ...1496 Chapter 31 Layout Curves and Grids ...
Page 1564: ...1524 Chapter 32 Grids ...
Page 1611: ...Documentation 5 1571 ...
Page 1612: ...1572 Chapter 36 Documentation ...
Page 1706: ...Stretching a surface opening Moving a surface opening 1666 Chapter 36 Spaces ...
Page 1710: ...Offsetting the edge of a window opening on a freeform space surface 1670 Chapter 36 Spaces ...
Page 1956: ...1916 Chapter 42 Fields ...
Page 2035: ...Properties of a detail callout The Properties of a Callout Tool 1995 ...
Page 2060: ...2020 Chapter 45 Callouts ...
Page 2170: ...2130 Chapter 47 AEC Content and DesignCenter ...
Page 2171: ...Other Utilities 6 2131 ...
Page 2172: ...2132 Chapter 48 Other Utilities ...
Page 2182: ...2142 Chapter 51 Reference AEC Objects ...
Page 2212: ...2172 Chapter 52 Customizing and Adding New Content for Detail Components ...
Page 2217: ...AutoCAD Architecture 2008 Menus 54 2177 ...
Page 2226: ...2186 Chapter 54 AutoCAD Architecture 2008 Menus ...
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