Project Structure
If you work with a building type that is fairly consistent from one project to another, or a protypical building type,
you may find it advantageous to pre-define some aspects of the project structure itself. None of this is absolutely
necessary and the level to which you choose to pre-define these items is completely optional.
Project Structure Items That Can be Established in the Template Project:
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Levels and Divisions
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Constructs and Elements: In addition to defining categories and sub-categories, any actual construct or element
drawings will be copied to the new project from the template project.
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Views: If you’ve created constructs and elements as part of your template project structure, you can also create
view drawings that reference the constructs.
NOTE AutoCAD Architecture provides you with the choice to use Relative XREF Paths, which are turned on by default in the
project properties. If you choose not to use relative paths and you create constructs, elements and views as part of your
template project, when a new project is created, the these items will be repathed automatically according to the new project’s
path.
Tool Catalogs
The tool catalog is one of the most critical components of any office’s custom content collection. It is the “central
repository” for all tool-based content, which can and should include tools that provide access to styles, AEC Content,
callouts, schedule tags and other miscellaneous annotation items. Because it is so central to an effective content
distribution and management system, you should spend time planning its location, organization and structure. You
should also take steps to protect the contents of the tool catalog from unauthorized or inadvertent modifications.
If users are going to manually load the catalog into their content browser library, pathing is not critical; it simply needs
to be placed in a location that all users can browse to. If you choose to automate the loading of the palette by creating
a catalog install file, you need to ensure that the network location of the catalog file is accessed in the same way by all
users. As with other types of network-based content, carefully consider the advantages and disadvantages of both
mapped network drives and UNC pathing.
If you need to control the ability of users to make modifications to the tool catalog, you can store it in a read-only
folder. Users will still be able to access the catalog to use the tools, however only those people with permission to write
to that location will actually be able to make changes to it.
Display Control
The AutoCAD Architecture display control system is very flexible and powerful, and is drawing-based. Therefore your
default display settings should be established in your template drawing. The templates that come with AutoCAD
Architecture already have much of the work involved in setting up a display system done for you. While they may
require some adjustments to conform to your office or project standards, you should, in most cases, start with the
default templates and make modifications to the existing settings rather than try to create a display system from scratch.
Display Hierarchy and “By Material” Display Control
Display control of individual objects can occur at three levels: drawing default, style overrides and object overrides.
When you define an object style you should only apply style overrides when absolutely necessary. Frequently you can
use material assignments to control the display of linework and hatching components of objects. For this reason, many
objects have “By Material” set as a drawing default for many of their display representations.
Display Control Customization
Like most aspects of AutoCAD Architecture, the display system can be customized. There are a few things that you
should keep in mind before doing so, however.
Best Practices for Customizing the Display System:
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Start with one of the default templates. Creating a display system from scratch can be very laborious and
time-consuming. It’s better to start with a template that is relatively close to what you need and making modifications
to it.
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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 ...