Zones
Zones allow you to group your spaces together for use in area calculation schemas, as and presentations (showing spaces
color-coded by department, for example). Additionally, engineers who are using AutoCAD MEP can use zones to perform
complex analysis calculations and reporting.
Zone Styles
Beyond being as descriptive as possible there are no naming conventions for Zone Styles.
Best Practices for Zone Styles:
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If you are using Zone Templates to automate the organization of your zones, then you must store the zone styles
in the same drawing as the zone template styles.
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You may want to use a style-level display override for your zone styles for presentation displays to control hatching
and color.
NOTE In addition to using style display overrides to control the display of zones, you might also consider using a Display
Theme Style configured to display Spaces based on a property value.
Calculation Modifier Styles
Calculation Modifier Style Naming Conventions:
<Calculation description> <Purpose>
Example Calculation Modifier Style Names:
Example Name
Calculation Modifier Style Description
10 Percent Commons Factor
Modifier to add ten percent to a calculated area to account for a
commons factor add on in a commercial office building.
Zone Template Styles
Zone Templates allow you to automate the organization of your zones into a tree structure. Aside from being as
descriptive as reasonably possible there are no naming conventions.
Best Practices for Zone Template Styles:
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When it is appropriate to do so, don’t forget to attach a calculation modifier style to the styles that you include in
your zone template. This can further automate the process of zone organization.
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Zone template styles must be stored in the same drawing as the zone styles that they include. They also must be
stored in the same drawing as any calculation modifiers that they use.
List Definitions
There are no naming or “Best Practices” tips for List Definitions.
IMPORTANT Related zone styles, zone template styles and calculation modifier styles must exist in the same drawing. For
this reason, you should consider storing all zone styles, zone template styles and calculation modifier styles in the same library
drawing. In addition, you should store list definitions in the library drawings containing the zone styles, space styles and
property set definitions that they are intended to be used with.
Multi-Purpose Objects
Object styles found under the “Multi-Purpose Objects” category are usually “helper” objects that are used to help define
or enhance other object styles, or symbol objects, such as masking blocks or multi-view blocks.
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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 ...
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