Items that can be modified in the sheet set file as part of the template project:
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Default sheet template file: This is the one template that is not specified in the project properties, as it is part
of the sheet set properties instead. This should be a sheet that has layouts defined in it that represent all of your
standard plot configurations. It should also contain each layout saved as a page setup for use as page setup overrides
when publishing.
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Subset Structure: You can add and delete subsets to conform to your office’s standard sheet set layout and
structure.
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Sheets: You can create sheets in advance to further automate sheet set structure.
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Sheet Set Custom Properties: You can define standard properties (data fields) that can be linked to your title
block MTEXT or attribute fields.
NOTE If you define custom properties that are to be linked to a title block, you may want to consider providing a default
value of “----” so that it will be obvious later on if you have fields whose values have not been set, and it will be easy to
edit them.
Items that you should NOT include in a sheet set file for AutoCAD Architecture
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Resource Drawing Locations: In AutoCAD Architecture your View drawings automatically become your resource
drawings. This setting should remain blank in the sheet set properties for an AutoCAD Architecture project.
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Label Block for Views: This is taken care of by the “Title Mark” tool on the AutoCAD Architecture tool palettes.
These can also be customized to suit office standards. Leave this setting blank.
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Callout Blocks: As with title marks, these are taken care of by the various callout tools on the AutoCAD Architecture
tool palettes and can be customized to suit office standards. This setting should remain blank.
Project Standards
All settings established in the “Configure AEC Project Standards” dialog box will copy with the template project to
become part of the new project. Standards files that are unique to the project, in other words, standards files that reflect
project standards that may be supplemental to or override office standards, should be placed in the “Standards” folder
of the template project. These files will be copied and their paths updated in the new project.
As with style library drawings, if you are including a non-project based file in your standards files, you need to decide
whether to use mapped drives or UNC file pathing. If you’re using mapped drive letters, they must be mapped identically
on all users’ workstations. If you choose UNC, you need to be sure that the server path will be remaining the same for
the foreseeable future.
Project Tool Catalogs and Palettes
In addition to office standard custom tool catalogs, each project has it’s own content browser library, with it’s own
associated project tool catalogs. These, like other project elements, can be configured in the template project as well.
There are a few simple guidelines that you should follow when creating project tool catalogs.
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Create your new catalog from the Project Library view in the Content Browser. The project library can be accessed
from the content browser button at the bottom of project navigator:
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If you create new catalogs in the project library, you should place them in the Standards/Tool Catalogs folder of
your template project.
IMPORTANT In order for project catalogs to properly copy when the template project is selected, you must start your
template project from one of the templates provided with AutoCAD Architecture. Remember also that even though the project
catalog is copied from the template project, the tools within the catalog are unchanged; their paths remain the same as they
are in the template.
538 | Chapter 13 Content Creation Guidelines
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 ...