Sample styles in AutoCAD Architecture catalogs contain predefined materials assigned to their components. Use these
materials in your drawings, customize them, or create your own materials. For more information, see “
Creating and
Editing Material Definitions
” on page 522.
Display Settings in External References
You cannot change a display setting in an external reference while refediting it from its host drawing. You can open
Display Manager and make changes, but they will not be saved when the external reference is saved and closed in the
host drawing. To make changes to display settings in external references, you need to open the external reference
drawing directly, make the changes there, and save it. The external reference should then be reloaded to update the
changes
Display Representations
A display representation defines how the components that make up an object are drawn. In traditional CAD and manual
drafting, a single object, such as a door, is typically drawn multiple times in different drawings. In these drawings, each
instance of a door is a separate collection of linework. In AutoCAD Architecture, you can create an object that changes
the way it draws itself depending on the display representation used to represent that object.
Display Components of AEC Objects
Most AEC objects are made up of individual components. For example, a door has the following components: door
panel, frame, stop, swing, glass, and threshold. A door may also have muntins.
Each component of an object has both physical and graphical properties that help to determine the display representation
of that object.
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The physical properties of an object control width, height, shape, and location of the object in the drawing.
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The graphical properties control visibility (on/off), layer, color, and linetype.
You typically decide the physical properties of an object when you create it. For example, you specify the size of a door
and its location in a wall. You control the graphical properties of an object in its display representation. You can define
multiple display representations for the same object.
Display Representations and View Directions
A display representation is not dependent on view direction, although it usually is designed with a specific view in
mind.
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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 ...
Page 40: ...xl Contents ...
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 ...
Page 2268: ...2228 Index ...