Autodesk AutoCAD AutoCAD Architecture - 2011 User’s Guide

AutoCAD Architecture 2011

User's Guide

March 2010

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Contents

Workflow and User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Chapter 1 New Features and Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

New Features in AutoCAD Architecture 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Productivity Tools for Grids and Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Renovation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Wall Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Geometric Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

A Quick Start for Transitioning from AutoCAD to AutoCAD

Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Autodesk Training Programs and Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Autodesk Authorized Training Centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Autodesk Official Training Courseware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Autodesk Certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

e-Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Contacting Autodesk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Sales Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Chapter 2 The Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Changes to the Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

The Workspace Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

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Workspace Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

The Ribbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

The Application Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

The Quick Access Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Context Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Tool Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Properties Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Drawing Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Application Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Project Navigator Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Finding Information in AutoCAD Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

InfoCenter Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

F1 Context Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Tooltips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Working with Objects in the Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Adding Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Modifying Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

View and Navigation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Quick View Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

ViewCube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

SteeringWheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

ShowMotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Working with Tool Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Opening the Tool Palettes Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Controlling the Appearance of the Tool Palettes Set . . . . . . . . 81

Specifying Different Tool Palettes for the Tool Palettes Set . . . . . 83

Creating a New Tool Palettes Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Creating a New Tool Palettes Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Creating a New Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Defining the Appearance of Tool Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Adding Text and Separator Lines to Tool Palettes . . . . . . . . . 89

Working with Tool Palettes from a Central Location . . . . . . . . 90

Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Creating an Object with a Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Changing the Tool Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Changing a Tool Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Changing a Tool Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Creating a Tool from an Object in the Drawing . . . . . . . . . . 100

Copying a Tool from a Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Creating a Tool from the Style Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Creating a Tool from AEC Content in DesignCenter . . . . . . . 103

Using Command Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Working with Tools from a Central Location . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Applying the Properties of a Tool to an Existing Object . . . . . 113

Re-Importing Styles for a Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

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Deleting a Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

The Properties Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Opening the Properties Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Setting the Appearance of the Properties Palette . . . . . . . . . 116

The Design Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

The Display Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

The Extended Data Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Worksheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Direct Editing with Grips and Dynamic Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . 123

Grip Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Grip Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Using the CTRL Key with Grips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Trigger Grips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Dynamic Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Grip Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Temporary Grip Coordinate Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Aligning the UCS to an Object Face . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Matching Object Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Styles and Support Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Integration of AutoCAD Architecture and AutoCAD . . . . . . . . . . 135

Chapter 3 Content Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Content Browser Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Exploring the Content Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Viewing a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Using the Items in a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Managing Your Catalog Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Creating a New Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Creating a Tool Catalog from Content Drawings . . . . . . . . . 146

Adding Tools from Content Drawings to a Tool Catalog . . . . . 149

Adding an Existing Tool Catalog to Your Catalog Library . . . . 152

Creating a Catalog Install File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Publishing Tool Catalogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Adding a Website to Your Catalog Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Editing Tool Catalog Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Creating Catalog Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Sorting Catalogs in the Library View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Filtering Catalogs in the Library View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Removing a Tool Catalog or Website Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Opening a Different Catalog Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Renaming a Catalog Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Searching for Items in a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Performing a Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Adding Content to a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Defining Categories in a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Adding a Tool Palette to a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

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Adding a Tool Package to a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Adding Tools to a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Copying and Moving Tool Palettes and Tool Packages . . . . . . 171

Copying and Moving Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Customizing a Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Deleting Tool Catalog Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Using Tool Catalog Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Linked and Unlinked Tool Catalog Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Using a Tool in the AutoCAD Architecture Workspace . . . . . . 176

Copying a Tool Palette to the AutoCAD Architecture

Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Copying a Tool Package to the AutoCAD Architecture

Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Refreshing Linked Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Refreshing Linked Tool Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Specifying Refresh Options for Linked Tool Palettes . . . . . . . 181

Working with Multiple Content Browser Windows . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Opening a Tool Catalog in a New Content Browser

Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Opening Catalog Items in a New Content Browser

Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Dragging Catalog Items Between Content Browser

Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Starting the Content Browser from a Windows Command

Prompt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Chapter 4 Creating and Saving Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

About Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Creating a Drawing from a Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Creating a Drawing Without a Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Opening Legacy Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Saving a Drawing to a Previous Release File Format . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Setting Up a Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Specifying the Drawing Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Creating Annotation Scales and Assigning them to Display

Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Specifying a Layer Standard and a Layer Key Style . . . . . . . . 198

Specifying the Default Display Representations . . . . . . . . . . 201

Specifying AEC Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Changing the AEC Editor Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Changing the AEC Content Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Specifying AEC Object Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Specifying the Display Resolution of Objects with Facets . . . . . 208

Changing the AEC Project Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Sharing Drawings with AutoCAD Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Comparing Methods of Sharing Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

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Generating Proxy Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Exporting a Drawing to AutoCAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Exporting a Drawing to a DXF File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Chapter 5 Interoperability with Other Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Importing and Exporting IFC Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

General Information for Exporting Drawing Files to IFC . . . . . 220

How IFC Files Are Imported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Importing Building Components from Autodesk Inventor . . . . . . . 243

Importing a Building Component into AutoCAD

Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Importing LandXML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Schema Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Supported Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

File Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Importing LandXML Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Selecting Layer Keys for LandXML Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Publishing Drawing Files to Autodesk MapGuide . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Published Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Generating a MWX File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

An Overview of the Published Data Structure . . . . . . . . . . . 257

An Overview of the Database Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Publishing Data to Autodesk MapGuide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Exporting Property Set Data to an MDB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Publishing Drawings to DWF and DWFx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Workflow for Publishing Drawings to DWF or DWFx . . . . . . 264

Conditions and Limitations to Publishing Drawings to 3D DWF

or DWFx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Exporting Property Set Data to a DWF or DWFx File . . . . . . . 266

Publishing Property Set Data from External References . . . . . . 267

Property Set Data Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Publishing a 3D DWF or 3D DWFx File with Automatic Property

Set Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Publishing a 3D DWF or 3D DWFx file with User-Defined

Property Set Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Publishing a 2D or 3D DWF or DWFx File with Property Set

Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Creating a New Published Property List (PPL) . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Publishing Drawings to PDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Publishing to PDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Exporting Property Set Data to a PDF File . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Publishing Property Set Data from External References . . . . . . 285

Publishing a PDF File with Automatic Property Set Data . . . . . 285

Publishing a PDF with All Property Set Data . . . . . . . . . . . 287

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Chapter 6 Drawing Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Workflow for a Project Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Concepts of Drawing Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

The Project Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Before You Begin: External References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Before You Begin: Working in a Network Environment . . . . . . . . . 302

Project Support Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Specifying the Default Project Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Working with Design Teams Located Remotely . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Opening a Project From a Mapped Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

The Project Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Opening the Project Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Using the Project Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Setting a Project Current . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Creating a New Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Working with Project Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Moving a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Renaming a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Closing All Project Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Electronically Transmitting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Deleting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Closing the Project Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Removing the Project Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Opening a Project from Windows Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

The Project Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Opening the Project Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

The Tabs of the Project Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Using the Project Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

The Drawing Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Displaying the Project Tool Palette Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Displaying the Project Content Browser Library . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Creating a New Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Copying a Level with Assigned Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Changing the Properties of a Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Deleting a Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Changing Levels: Interactions with the Project . . . . . . . . . . 371

Divisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Creating a New Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Changing a Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Deleting a Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Changing Divisions: Interactions with the Project . . . . . . . . 374

Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Creating a Category in the Drawing Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Creating a Category from Windows Explorer . . . . . . . . . . 379

Specifying the Location of Top-Level Categories . . . . . . . . . 381

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Changing the Subcategory of a Project File . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Deleting a Category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

When To Start with Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

The Role of Constructs in the Building Project . . . . . . . . . . 387

The Content of Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Creating a New Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Copying Constructs to Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Converting a Drawing to a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Opening and Closing a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Dragging Objects into a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Referencing Elements into Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Displaying External References of a Construct . . . . . . . . . . 402

Changing the Properties of a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Electronically Transmitting a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Deleting a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Converting a Construct to an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Changing Constructs: Interactions with the Project . . . . . . . 410

Elements in the Building Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

When to Start with Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Processing Elements in the Building Project . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Creating an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Converting a Drawing to an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Opening and Closing an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Dragging Objects into an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Changing the Properties of an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Electronically Transmitting an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

Deleting an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Referencing an Element into Another Element . . . . . . . . . . 426

Displaying External References Attached to an Element . . . . . 428

Converting an Element to a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Changing Elements: Interactions with the Project . . . . . . . . 431

Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

When to Start with Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Workflow to Create View Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Creating a New View Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Displaying External References of a View Drawing . . . . . . . . 444

Opening and Closing a View Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Creating a Model Space View Drawing from a Callout . . . . . . 448

Changing the Properties of a View Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Regenerating the View Drawings in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Placing a View Drawing onto a Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Electronically Transmitting a View Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Deleting a View Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Creating a Model Space View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Placing a Model Space View onto a Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

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Changing the Properties of a Model Space View . . . . . . . . . 459

Deleting Model Space Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Synchronizing View Drawing Layers with Sheet View

Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Changing Views: Interactions with the Project . . . . . . . . . . 466

Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

When to Start with Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Creating a Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Setting the Properties of the Project Sheet Set . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Creating a Sheet Subset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476

Setting the Properties of a Sheet Subset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Removing a Sheet Subset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

Importing Sheets into the Sheet Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

Importing the Current Layout as a Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480

Opening and Closing a Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Changing the Properties of a Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Removing a Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Deleting a Sheet Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Creating a Sheet View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Opening a Sheet View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

Numbering Sheet Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

Deleting a Sheet View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

Displaying External References of a Sheet Drawing . . . . . . . . 486

Inserting a Sheet List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

Changing the Sheet List Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491

Updating the Sheet List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491

Refreshing the Sheet Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491

Creating a Sheet Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Activating a Sheet Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

Removing a Sheet Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

Electronically Transmitting Sheets and Sheet Sets . . . . . . . . 494

Publishing Sheet Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

Changing Sheets: Interactions with the Project . . . . . . . . . . 497

Creating a Sheet Set Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

Creating a Sheet Set Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Creating a Template from Existing Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . 505

Repath the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

Refreshing the Project Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

Object Display in External References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

Workflow for Annotating a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515

Generating Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516

Tagging in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516

Property Set Data and Schedule Tables in Projects . . . . . . . . 518

Workflow for Creating Title Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

Dimensioning a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

Working with Cut Planes in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534

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Global Cut Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536

Object-Specific Cut Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545

Drawing Management Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548

Command Line: Opening the Project Browser . . . . . . . . . . 548

Command Line: Opening the Project Navigator . . . . . . . . . 549

Command Line: Refreshing the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

Command Line: Regenerating Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

Command Line: Selecting a New Project Environment . . . . . . 550

Command Line: Closing the Project Navigator . . . . . . . . . . 550

Frequently Asked Questions about Drawing Management . . . . . . . 550

Appendix 1: Template Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554

Levels and Divisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555

Project File Naming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555

Constructs Included in the Commercial Template Project . . . . 558

The Element File Included in the Commercial Template

Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

Views Included in the Template Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

Sheets Included in the Template Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

Project Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564

Chapter 7 Renovation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

Overview of Renovation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

Renovation Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

Demolition Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

Revision Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

Renovation Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

Working in Renovation Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

Activating Renovation Mode for the First Time . . . . . . . . . . 568

Renovation Settings for Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571

Working on Your Drawings with Renovation Mode Active . . . . 575

Customizing Renovation Design Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578

Chapter 8 Project Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585

Project Standards Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585

Project Standards Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

AEC Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588

AutoCAD Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590

Standard Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590

Synchronizing the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

Process Overview: Using Standards in a Project . . . . . . . . . . 591

Using Project Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592

Prerequisites for Working with Project Standards . . . . . . . . . 593

Setting up Standards in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

Creating a New Project with Predefined Standards . . . . . . . . 594

Configuring Project Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595

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Setting up Standard Tools in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608

Creating a Tool Catalog for a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612

Adding a Project Catalog to a Content Browser Library . . . . . 617

Adding a Project Library and Tool Palette Group . . . . . . . . . 618

Displaying the Project Tool Palette Group . . . . . . . . . . . . 623

Building the Tool Palette Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625

Copying the Project Tool Palettes to the Tool Palette File

Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627

Adding the Project Profile to the Tool Palette File Location . . . 627

Adding Standards to a Project Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628

Project Tool Palette Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629

Adding Standard Styles from Content Browser . . . . . . . . . . 630

Adding Standard Styles from Style Manager . . . . . . . . . . . 630

Adding Standard Display Settings from Display Manager . . . . 632

Synchronizing a Project with the Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633

Synchronization Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638

Synchronizing a Project with AEC Standards . . . . . . . . . . . 640

Synchronization Exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642

Synchronizing a Project Drawing with AEC Standards . . . . . . 643

Synchronizing Selected Styles and Display Settings with AEC

Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645

Generating a Synchronization Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651

Synchronizing a Project with AutoCAD Standards . . . . . . . . 652

Synchronizing a Project Drawing with AutoCAD Standards . . . 653

Auditing a Project or a Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654

Showing Display Overrides in Project Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . 656

Editing Project Drawings Outside the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657

Creating a New Project Standards Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657

Updating Project Standards Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660

Process Overview: Updating AEC Standards in a Project . . . . . 661

Versioning Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661

Change Types in Project Standards Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . 663

Updating Standard Objects in a Project Standards Drawing . . . 665
Updating Standard Objects in a Project Standards Drawing from

a Project Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668

Adding Standard Objects from a Project Drawing to a Project

Standards Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670

Editing the Version History of a Standard Object . . . . . . . . . 672

Versioning a Project Standards Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673

Purging the Version History from a Project Standards

Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674

Purging the Version Information from a Project Standards

Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675

Synchronizing Project Standards with Each Other . . . . . . . . 676

Editing Project Standards Drawings Outside the Project . . . . . . . . 677

Scripting Project Standards Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678

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Chapter 9 Drawing Compare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681

Overview of Drawing Compare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681

Starting a Drawing Compare Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684

Reviewing the Results of a Drawing Compare Session . . . . . . . . . 690

Creating a Visual Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696

Drawing Compare Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697

Frequently Asked Questions about Drawing Compare . . . . . . . . . 697

Chapter 10 Layer Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701

Layer Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701

Managing Drawing Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

Opening the Layer Properties Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

Making a Layer Current . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707

Creating a Layer with a Layer Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708

Creating a Nonstandard Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709

Renaming a Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710

Deleting a Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710

Changing the Layer Standard of a Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711

Defining the Properties of a Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711

Overriding Layer Properties in Layout Viewports . . . . . . . . . 715

Identifying Viewport Layer Overrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716

Removing Viewport Layer Overrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717

Working with Layer Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719

Types of Layer Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721

Creating a Group Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721

Creating a Property Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722

Creating a Layer Standards Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727

Adding Layers to Layer Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728

Changing the Properties of a Layer Group . . . . . . . . . . . . 729

Renaming and Deleting Layer Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730

Converting a Property Filter to a Group Filter . . . . . . . . . . 730

New Layer Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731

Setting up the Notification for New Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . 731

Identifying New Layers in the Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733

Reconciling New Layers in the Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734

Working with Layer States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735

Creating a Saved Layer State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736

Editing a Saved Layer State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739

Restoring a Layer State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741

Deleting a Layer State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743

Importing Layer States to the Current Drawing . . . . . . . . . . 743

Exporting a Layer State from the Current Drawing . . . . . . . . 745

Working with Layer Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745

Default Layer Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747

Default Layer Key Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752

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Creating a Layer Key Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752

Creating a Layer Key Style from an LY File . . . . . . . . . . . . 753

Editing Layer Key Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754

Attaching Notes and Files to a Layer Key Style . . . . . . . . . . 756

Layer Key Overrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757

Creating and Editing Layer Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760

Component Fields in Layer Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761

Creating a Layer Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769

Editing Component Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770

Editing Descriptive Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771

Editing Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772

Editing Description Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773

Purging Layer Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773

Importing Layer Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774

Exporting Layer Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775

Appendix: LISP Changes for Layer Snapshots and Layer States . . . . . 775

Chapter 11 Display System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777

Introduction to the Display System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777

Using the Properties Palette to Change Display Properties . . . . . . . 779

Display System Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787

Display Representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 789

Display Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794

Display Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796

The Display Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800

Opening the Display Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 802

Viewing Display Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 802

Viewing Display Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804

Viewing Display Representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806

Viewing an Object in a Display Representation . . . . . . . . . . 808

Viewing the Display Representation of an Object in a Display

Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809

Accessing the Default Display Properties of an Object . . . . . . 810

Creating and Editing Display Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810

Process Overview: Creating a Display Configuration . . . . . . . 810

Tips for Working with Display Configurations, Sets, and

Representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811

Creating a Display Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 812

Creating a Display Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813

Creating a Display Representation for an Object . . . . . . . . . 814

Editing a Display Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815

Assigning a Display Representation to a Display Set . . . . . . . 817

Comparing Display Representations Between Display Sets . . . . 819

Assigning a Display Set to a View Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . 821

Assigning a Display Configuration to a Viewport . . . . . . . . . 822

Specifying a Display Set as a Default Display Set . . . . . . . . . 822

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Specifying the Default Display Configuration . . . . . . . . . . 823

Specifying the Display Configurations Used in Xref

Overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824

Changing the Display Configuration Used in Xref

Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825

Displaying Objects by Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826

Specifying Settings for Live Sections and Materials . . . . . . . . 828

Managing Display Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829

Renaming a Display Configuration or a Display Set . . . . . . . 829

Renaming a Display Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 830

Deleting a Display Configuration or a Display Set . . . . . . . . 830

Deleting a Display Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831

Adding Notes and Reference Files to a Display Configuration

or a Display Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 832

Using Display Settings in Multiple Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . 833

Purging a Display Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836

Purging a Display Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836

Purging a Display Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837

Working with Standard Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838

Synchronizing Individual Display Settings with AEC

Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840

Excluding Display Settings from Synchronization . . . . . . . . 841

Updating Standard Display Settings in a Project Standards

Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841

Updating Standard Display Settings in the Project Standards

Drawing from a Project Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 844

Adding Standard Display Settings from a Project Drawing to a

Project Standards Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846

Editing the Version History of a Standard Display Setting . . . . 848

Purging the Version History from a Project Standards

Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849

Purging the Version Information from a Project Standards

Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849

Synchronizing Project Standards with Each Other . . . . . . . . 850

Troubleshooting the Display System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851

Object Not Displayed in a Viewport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851

Viewport Not Updating Properly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852

Objects Copied from Another Drawing Display Differently . . . 852
Verifying the Existence of Objects Not Displayed in a

Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852

Object Linetype Displayed Incorrectly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853

Chapter 12 Style Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855

What Are Styles? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855

Style Manager Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856

Sorting Styles in the Style Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859

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Creating a Style from the Style Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860

Creating a Style from an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861

Creating a Tool from a Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 862

Renaming a Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863

Copying Styles Between Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863

Sending Styles to Other Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865

Purging Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866

Working with Drawings and Templates in the Style Manager . . . . . 867

Starting a New Drawing or Template in the Style Manager . . . . 868

Opening a Drawing or Template in the Style Manager . . . . . . 868

Dragging a Drawing into the Style Manager . . . . . . . . . . . 869

Closing Drawings and Templates in the Style Manager . . . . . . 869

Chapter 13 Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871

Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871

Objects That Support Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873

Working with Material Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 876

Using the Material Tool to Add Materials to Objects . . . . . . . 877

Creating Custom Material Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879

Material Components and Display Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 884

Linework Material Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885

Plan Hatch Material Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885

3D Body Material Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 886

Surface Hatch Material Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 886

2D Section/Elevation Linework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887

Section Hatch Material Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888

Sectioned Body and Sectioned Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888

Displaying Materials in a Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 889

Working with Surface Hatches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890

Surface Hatches on Curved Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891

Surface Hatches on Multiple Faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892

Surface Hatches on Extrusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893

Surface Hatches on Free Form Mass Elements . . . . . . . . . . . 895

Overriding the Surface Hatch on Individual Objects . . . . . . . . . . 895

Hiding a Surface Hatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896

Displaying a Hidden Surface Hatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898

Specifying the Rotation of a Surface Hatch . . . . . . . . . . . . 899

Specifying the Horizontal and Vertical Offset of a Surface

Hatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900

Editing Surface Hatch Overrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 902

Displaying a List of Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 902

Displaying a Material Query . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903

Process Overview: Creating and Assigning Materials . . . . . . . . . . 903

Creating and Editing Material Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905

Creating a Material Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905

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Defining the Layer, Color and Linetype of a Material

Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 906

Specifying the Plan and Section Hatch Patterns of a Material

Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907

Specifying the Surface Hatch Pattern of a Material

Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909

Assigning Render Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911

Excluding a Material Definition from 2D Section

Shrinkwrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914

Controlling the Display of Hidden Lines by Material . . . . . . . 915

Merging Material Definitions in a 2D Section/Elevation . . . . . 917

Attaching Notes and Files to a Material Definition . . . . . . . . 918

Chapter 14 Content Creation Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919

General Content Standards and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919

Content Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919

National CAD Standard Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921

Content Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 925

Template Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 926

Style Library Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 928

Template Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 929

Tool Catalogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932

Display Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933

Style-Based Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935

Architectural Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935

Documentation Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 959

Multi-Purpose Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967

Symbol & Tool-Based Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 979

AEC Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 979

Palette-Based and Miscellaneous Annotation Tool Content . . . 983

Conceptual Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 987

Chapter 15 Creating Conceptual Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 989

Mass Elements and Mass Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 989

Using Massing Tools to Create Mass Elements . . . . . . . . . . 991

Editing Mass Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1010

Mass Element Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1043

Using Massing Tools to Create Mass Groups . . . . . . . . . . . 1051

Using Materials for Mass Elements and Mass Groups . . . . . . 1068

Using the Model Explorer to Create Mass Models . . . . . . . . . . . 1073

Displaying the Model Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1075

Defining the View in the Model Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . 1076

Navigating the View in the Model Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . 1077

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Navigating the View with the ViewCube . . . . . . . . . . . . 1077

Navigating the View with SteeringWheels . . . . . . . . . . . . 1078

Viewing Objects on a Nonvisible Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1079

Maintaining Zoom Percentage and Position of an Object . . . . 1080

Using Toolbar Commands in the Model Explorer . . . . . . . . 1080

Creating Slice Floorplates from a Conceptual Model . . . . . . . . . 1087

Generating a Slice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1088

Specifying the Slice Elevation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1090

Attaching Objects to a Slice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1090

Detaching Objects from a Slice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1090

Converting a Slice to a Polyline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1091

Changing the Location of a Slice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1091

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, or Files to a Slice . . . . . . . . . 1092

Chapter 16 Quick Slice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1095

Quick Slice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1095

Creating a Quick Slice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1095

Chapter 17 Object Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1097

Object Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1097

Defining the View in the Object Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101

Navigating the View in the Object Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . 1103

Navigating the View with the ViewCube . . . . . . . . . . . . 1104

Navigating the View with SteeringWheels . . . . . . . . . . . . 1105

Setting the View Direction of the Object Viewer to the Drawing

Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1106

Saving a Preview Image from the Object Viewer . . . . . . . . . 1107

Chapter 18 Napkin Sketch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109

Napkin Sketch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109

Creating a Napkin Sketch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111

Editing a Napkin Sketch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1113

Designing with Architectural Objects . . . . . . . . . . 1115

Chapter 19 General Object Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1117

The General Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1117

Selecting Similar Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1117

The Object Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1118

Isolating and Hiding Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1118

Editing Objects in Temporary Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1121

Adding Objects of the Same Type as the Selected Object . . . . 1124

Editing Object Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1124

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Copying and Assigning an Object Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1125

Dimensioning an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1125

Tagging an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1126

Editing Object Components In Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1126

Editing Polyline-based Components in Place . . . . . . . . . . 1128

Editing Profile-based Object Components in Place . . . . . . . 1129

Editing in Place: Special Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1130

Changing the Display of Object Components in Edit-in-Place

Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1132

AEC Object Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1134

Chapter 20 Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1145

Workflow for Adding Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1147

Drawing Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1149

Creating Walls from Linework and 3D Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . 1159

Adding Doors and Windows to Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1163

Adding Unconstrained Doors and Windows . . . . . . . . . . . 1164

Adding Doors and Windows Relative to Walls . . . . . . . . . . 1165

Adding Doors and Windows relative to column grids . . . . . . 1168

Adding an Opening to a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173

Adding a Door/Window Assembly to a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173

Removing Windows, Openings, Doors, or Door/Window Assemblies

from a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1174

Anchoring an Object to a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1174

Detaching Objects from a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1175

Editing Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1176

Using Grips to Edit Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1177

Changing the Shape of a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1185

Changing the Wall Justification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1193

Offsetting New Walls from Existing Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . 1193

Repositioning a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1195

Adjusting the Position of Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1196

Applying Tool Properties to an Existing Wall . . . . . . . . . . 1197

Changing the Style of a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1198

Changing the Location of a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1199

Merging Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1200

Removing Individual Merge Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1200

Removing All Merged Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201

Joining Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201

Filleting Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1203

Chamfering Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1206

Reversing the Direction of a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1208

Using AutoCAD Commands to Edit Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . 1209

Changing the Roof Line and the Floor Line of a Wall . . . . . . 1210

Specifying the Materials of Individual Walls . . . . . . . . . . . 1222

Changing the Display Properties of Individual Walls . . . . . . 1224

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Attaching Notes and Files to a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1232

Wall Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233

Creating a Wall Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1236

Troubleshooting Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1240

Creating Special Conditions and Customized Wall Surfaces . . . . . . 1241

Working with Wall Sweeps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1242

Working with Wall Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1254

Working with Body Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1270

Working with Interference Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1278

Wall Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1282

Creating a Wall Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1283

Adding Property Set Data to a Wall Style . . . . . . . . . . . . 1284

Specifying the Components of a Wall Style . . . . . . . . . . . 1285

Specifying the Materials of a Wall Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1299

Specifying the Display Properties of a Wall Style . . . . . . . . 1302

Adding Classifications to a Wall Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1308

Defining a Wall Style as Bounding for Associative Spaces . . . . 1308

Attaching Notes and Files to a Wall Style . . . . . . . . . . . . 1309

Workflow for Cleaning Up Wall Intersections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1309

Working with Intelligent Cleanup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1310

Using Intelligent Cleanup for L Intersections . . . . . . . . . . 1311

Using Intelligent Cleanup for T Intersections . . . . . . . . . . 1314

Using Intelligent Cleanup for Multiple Wall Intersections . .

1316

Wall Justification Lines and Cleanup Circles . . . . . . . . . . 1319

Wall Cleanups and Priorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1323

Guidelines for Successful Wall Cleanup . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1325

Assigning a Different Wall Cleanup Group Definition to Existing

Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1326

Specifying Cleanup for Individual Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1326

Overriding the Wall Cleanup Circle Radius . . . . . . . . . . . 1327

Overriding Component Priorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1328

Troubleshooting Wall Cleanups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1329

Cleanup Group Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337

Using Edit in Place to Clean Up Wall Intersections . . . . . . . . . . 1340

Specifying a Component Cleanup Override . . . . . . . . . . . 1343

Hiding the Edge of a Wall Intersection Component . . . . . . . 1343

Showing the Edge of a Wall Intersection Component . . . . . . 1345

Filleting a Wall Intersection Component . . . . . . . . . . . . 1347

Chamfering a Wall Intersection Component . . . . . . . . . . 1348

Adding a Vertex to a Wall Intersection Component . . . . . . . 1349

Removing a Vertex from a Wall Intersection Component . . . . 1352

Subtracting a Profile from a Wall Intersection Component . . . 1353

Merging a Profile with a Wall Intersection Component . . . . . 1354

Trimming a Wall Intersection Component . . . . . . . . . . . 1356

Extending a Wall Intersection Component . . . . . . . . . . . 1358

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Working with Wall Endcaps and Opening Endcaps . . . . . . . . . . 1359

Workflow for Creating Wall and Opening Endcaps . . . . . . . 1360

Using Edit in Place to Modify Wall Endcaps . . . . . . . . . . . 1361

Filleting a Wall Endcap Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1371

Chamfering a Wall Endcap Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1373

Showing the Edge of a Wall Endcap Component . . . . . . . . 1374

Hiding the Edge of a Wall Endcap Component . . . . . . . . . 1375

Trimming a Wall Endcap Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1376

Extending a Wall Endcap Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1377

Subtracting a Profile from a Wall Endcap Component . . . . . 1379

Merging a Profile with a Wall Endcap Component . . . . . . . 1381

Creating Wall Endcaps Using Calculate Automatically . . . . . 1382

Applying Wall Endcap Styles from the Style Manager . . . . . . 1387

Modifying the Geometry of a Wall Endcap Style . . . . . . . . 1389

Changing the Return Offset of a Wall Endcap Style . . . . . . . 1392

Attaching Notes and Files to a Wall Endcap Style . . . . . . . . 1393

Creating a Wall Opening Endcap Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1393

Applying a Wall Opening Endcap Style to a Wall Style . . . . . 1394

Overriding a Wall Opening Endcap Style on a Wall . . . . . . . 1395

Using Ortho Close and Close with Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1395

About Wall Lengths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1396

About Curved Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1396

Specifying Offsets for Roof Line and Floor Line Vertices . . . . . . . . 1397

Specifying the Width and Edge Offset of a Wall Component . . . . . 1398

Chapter 21 Curtain Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1401

Curtain Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1401

Using Curtain Wall Tools To Create Curtain Walls . . . . . . . . . . 1405

Creating a Straight Curtain Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1406

Creating a Curtain Wall with User-Specified Settings . . . . . . 1407

Creating a Curved Curtain Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1409

Creating a Curtain Wall that References a Curve . . . . . . . . 1412

Converting a Layout Grid to a Curtain Wall . . . . . . . . . . . 1413

Creating a Curtain Wall from an Elevation Sketch . . . . . . . 1415

Converting a Wall to a Curtain Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1417

Converting a 3D Face to a Curtain Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1418

Creating a Curtain Wall Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1419

Curtain Wall Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1422

Process Overview: Creating a Curtain Wall Style . . . . . . . . 1423

Tips for Working Efficiently with Curtain Wall Styles . . . . . . 1424

Creating Element Definitions for a Curtain Wall Style . . . . . 1425

Creating a Curtain Wall Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1426

Defining Divisions for Curtain Wall Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . 1428

Defining Infills for Curtain Wall Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1441

Defining Curtain Wall Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1447

Defining Curtain Wall Mullions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1454

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Assigning Definitions to Curtain Wall Elements . . . . . . . . . 1461

Assigning a Division to a Curtain Wall Grid . . . . . . . . . . . 1462

Assigning Infills to Curtain Wall Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1463

Assigning Definitions to Curtain Wall Frames . . . . . . . . . . 1475

Assigning Definitions to Curtain Wall Mullions . . . . . . . . . 1478

Specifying the Materials of a Curtain Wall Style . . . . . . . . . 1482

Specifying the Display of Curtain Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1484

Defining a Curtain Wall Style as Bounding for Associative

Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1491

Attaching Notes and Files to a Curtain Wall Style . . . . . . . . 1491

Using Overrides in Curtain Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1492

Overriding Curtain Wall Infills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1493

Overriding Curtain Wall Frames and Mullions . . . . . . . . . 1503

Overriding Curtain Wall Divisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1514

Removing Curtain Wall Overrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1520

Modifying Element Definitions for Curtain Wall Styles . . . . . . . . 1520

Editing Curtain Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1522

Using Grips to Edit Curtain Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1523

Selecting a Different Curtain Wall Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1532

Applying the Properties of an Existing Curtain Wall . . . . . . 1533

Changing the Dimensions of a Curtain Wall . . . . . . . . . . 1533

Changing the Curtain Wall Location Properties . . . . . . . . . 1534

Adding an Interference Condition to a Curtain Wall . . . . . . 1535

Removing an Interference Condition from a Curtain Wall . . . 1536

Mitering Curtain Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1536

Specifying a Miter Angle for a Curtain Wall Adjacent to Another

Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1537

Specifying the Cut Plane Display of a Curtain Wall . . . . . . . 1538

Specifying the Display of Other Characteristics of a Curtain

Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1539

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, or Files to a Curtain Wall . . . . . 1541

Changing the Roof Line and the Floor Line of a Curtain Wall . . . . 1542

Offsetting or Projecting the Roof Line of a Curtain Wall . . . . 1542

Offsetting or Projecting the Floor Line of a Curtain Wall . . . . 1544

Editing the Roof Line or the Floor Line of a Curtain Wall . . . . 1545

Changing the Roof Line and the Floor Line . . . . . . . . . . . 1547

Adding a Gable to the Roof Line of a Curtain Wall . . . . . . . 1549

Adding a Step to the Roof Line or Floor Line of a Curtain

Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1551

Changing Vertices in the Roof Line or Floor Line of a Curtain

Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1552

Specifying Gable Settings for a Roof Line . . . . . . . . . . . . 1554

Specifying Step Settings for a Roof Line or Floor Line . . . . . . 1555

Specifying Vertex Settings for a Roof Line or Floor Line . . . . . 1556

Editing Objects Anchored in Curtain Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1558

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Changing the Orientation of an Object Anchored in a Curtain

Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1558

Changing the Alignment of an Object Anchored in a Curtain

Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1558

Changing the Offset of an Object Anchored in a Curtain

Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1559

Swapping Two Objects Anchored in a Curtain Wall . . . . . . . 1559

Releasing an Object Anchored in a Curtain Wall . . . . . . . . 1559

Curtain Wall Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1560

Creating Curtain Wall Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1562

Creating a Curtain Wall Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1562

Converting a Layout Grid to a Curtain Wall Unit . . . . . . . . 1563

Creating a Curtain Wall Unit with a Custom Grid . . . . . . . 1565

Curtain Wall Unit Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1567

Creating Element Definitions for a Curtain Wall Unit Style . . . 1567

Creating a Curtain Wall Unit Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1568

Defining Divisions for Curtain Wall Unit Grids . . . . . . . . . 1570

Defining Infills for Curtain Wall Unit Cells . . . . . . . . . . . 1579

Defining Curtain Wall Unit Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1584

Defining Curtain Wall Unit Mullions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1591

Assigning a Division to a Curtain Wall Unit Grid . . . . . . . . 1597

Assigning Infills to Curtain Wall Unit Cells . . . . . . . . . . . 1598

Assigning Definitions to Curtain Wall Unit Frames . . . . . . . 1607

Assigning Definitions to the Mullions of a Curtain Wall Unit

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1611

Specifying the Materials of a Curtain Wall Unit Style . . . . . . 1615

Specifying the Display of Curtain Wall Units . . . . . . . . . . 1617

Defining a Curtain Wall Unit Style as Bounding for Associative

Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1624

Attaching Notes and Files to a Curtain Wall Unit Style . . . . . 1624

Using Overrides in Curtain Wall Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1625

Overriding Curtain Wall Unit Infills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1626

Overriding Curtain Wall Unit Frames and Mullions . . . . . . . 1636

Overriding Curtain Wall Unit Divisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1648

Removing Curtain Wall Unit Overrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1654

Editing Curtain Wall Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1654

Using Grips to Edit Curtain Wall Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1655

Selecting a Different Curtain Wall Unit Style . . . . . . . . . . 1659

Matching the Properties of an Existing Curtain Wall Unit . . . 1660

Changing the Dimensions of a Curtain Wall Unit . . . . . . . 1661

Specifying a Miter Angle for a Curtain Wall Unit Adjacent to

Another Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1661

Changing the Location of a Freestanding Curtain Wall

Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1662

Modifying the Position of Anchored Curtain Wall Units . . . . 1663

Specifying the Cut Plane Display of a Curtain Wall Unit . . . . 1664

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Specifying the Display of Other Characteristics of a Curtain

Wall Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1666

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, or Files to a Curtain Wall

Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1668

Facet Deviation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1668

Chapter 22 Door and Window Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1671

Door and Window Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1671

Using Door and Window Assembly Tools to Create Door and

Window Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1675

Creating a Door and Window Assembly Tool . . . . . . . . . . 1684

Door and Window Assembly Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1687

Using Overrides in Door and Window Assemblies . . . . . . . . 1763

Modifying Element Definitions for Door and Window Assembly

Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1792

Editing Door and Window Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1793

Editing Objects Anchored in Door and Window

Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1808

Chapter 23 AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1811

AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1811

Using AEC Polygon Tools to Create AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . 1814

Creating an AEC Polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1814

Creating an AEC Polygon with User-Specified Settings . . . . . . . . 1815

Creating an AEC Polygon from a Polyline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1816

Creating an AEC Polygon from a Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1817

Creating an AEC Polygon Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1817

Editing AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1819

Using Grips to Edit AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1820

Changing the AEC Polygon Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1829

Centering AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1829

Subtracting AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1829

Merging AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1830

Arraying AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1831

Repositioning AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1832

Evenly Spacing AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1832

Trimming AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1833

Dividing AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1833

Cropping AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1834

Adding a Vertex to an AEC Polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1835

Removing a Vertex from an AEC Polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836

Converting an AEC Polygon to a Polyline . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836

Converting an AEC Polygon to a Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1837

Changing the Rotation of an AEC Polygon . . . . . . . . . . . 1837

Changing the Elevation of an AEC Polygon . . . . . . . . . . . 1838

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Changing the Location of an AEC Polygon . . . . . . . . . . . 1838

Specifying Fill Properties for the True Color Display

Representation of an AEC Polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1839

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, or Files to an AEC Polygon . . . . 1841

AEC Polygon Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842

Creating an AEC Polygon Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842

Changing the Width and Justification of the AEC Polygon

Edges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1844

Masking Underlying Objects with AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . 1845

Specifying the Display Properties of an AEC Polygon Style . . . 1845
Setting the Colors of the True Color Display

Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850

Attaching Notes and Files to an AEC Polygon Style . . . . . . . 1851

Adding Classifications to an AEC Polygon Style . . . . . . . . . 1852

Chapter 24 Doors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1855

Doors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1855

Creating a Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1857

Creating a Door in a Door and Window Assembly . . . . . . . . . . 1859

Converting Objects to a Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1859

Door Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1860

Editing Doors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1867

Using Grips to Edit Doors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1868

Moving a Door Along a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1870

Moving a Door Within a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1871

Using Anchors to Change Doors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1872

Moving a Door to a Different Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1877

Releasing a Door from a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1877

Changing the Location of a Freestanding Door . . . . . . . . . 1878

Center a Door Using Modify Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1879

Create a Door Array Using Modify Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1879

Repositioning a Door with Modify Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . 1879

Spacing Doors Evenly with Modify Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . 1880

Display Properties of Doors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1880

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, and Files to a Door . . . . . . . . 1884

Door Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1884

Creating a Door Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1885

Specifying the Dimensions of a Door Style . . . . . . . . . . . 1887

Specifying the Design Rules of a Door Style . . . . . . . . . . . 1888

Specifying the Standard Sizes of a Door Style . . . . . . . . . . 1889

Creating a Custom Door Shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1890

Replacing the Door Shape in a Door Style . . . . . . . . . . . . 1891

Editing the Geometry of a Door Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1892

About Door Display Components and Materials . . . . . . . . 1895

Specifying the Display Properties of a Door Style . . . . . . . . 1899

Defining a Door Style as Bounding for Associative Spaces . . . . 1908

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Attaching Notes and Files to a Door Style . . . . . . . . . . . . 1908

Creating Muntins in a Door Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1909

Chapter 25 Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1941

Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1941

Using Window Tools to Create Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1943

Creating a Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1945

Creating a Window with User-Specified Settings . . . . . . . . . . . 1945

Creating a Window in a Door and Window Assembly . . . . . . . . . 1949

Creating a Window from Doors, Door/Window Assemblies and

Openings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1949

Creating a Window Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1950

Editing Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1953

Using Grips to Edit Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1954

Changing the Window Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1956

Changing How Window Width is Measured . . . . . . . . . . . 1956

Changing the Window Swing Angle or Opening Percent . . . . 1957

Changing the Vertical Alignment of a Window . . . . . . . . . 1958

Moving a Window Along a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1959

Moving a Window Within a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1962

Using Anchors to Change the Horizontal Position of a

Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1963

Using Anchors to Change the Vertical Position of a

Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1965

Using Anchors to Change the Position of a Window Within a

Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1966

Changing the Orientation of a Window to a Wall . . . . . . . . 1968

Moving a Window to a Different Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1968

Releasing a Window from a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1968

Center a Window Using Modify Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1969

Create a Window Array Using Modify Tools . . . . . . . . . . . 1969

Repositioning a Window with Modify Tools . . . . . . . . . . . 1969

Spacing Windows Evenly with Modify Tools . . . . . . . . . . 1970

Changing the Opening Endcap Assigned to a Window . . . . . 1970

Changing the Location of a Freestanding Window . . . . . . . 1970

Changing the Cut Plane Setting for a Window . . . . . . . . . 1971

Specifying the Display of Muntins Blocks for a Window . . . . 1972

Specifying the Display of Sills for a Window . . . . . . . . . . 1973

Reversing the Handing for a Window in an Elevation View . . . 1975

Specifying the Display of Frames for a Window . . . . . . . . . 1976

Specifying the Display of Custom Block Components of a

Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1977

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, and Files to a Window . . . . . . 1979

Window Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1980

Creating a Window Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1981

Specifying the Dimensions of a Window Style . . . . . . . . . . 1983

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Specifying the Standard Sizes of a Window Style . . . . . . . . 1983

Creating a Custom Window Shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1984

Specifying the Design Rules of a Window Style . . . . . . . . . 1986

Replacing the Window Shape in a Window Style . . . . . . . . 1987

Editing the Geometry of a Window Style . . . . . . . . . . . . 1987

About Window Display Components and Materials . . . . . . . 1990

Assigning Materials to a Window Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1992

Adding Classifications to a Window Style . . . . . . . . . . . . 1993

Specifying the Display Properties of a Window Style . . . . . . 1993

Defining a Window Style as Bounding for Associative

Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2001

Attaching Notes and Files to a Window Style . . . . . . . . . . 2001

Creating Muntins in a Window Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2002

Chapter 26 Openings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2031

Openings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2031

Using Opening Tools to Create Openings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2032

Creating an Opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2033

Creating an Opening with User-Specified Settings . . . . . . . . . . . 2034

Creating an Opening from Doors, Door/Window Assemblies and

Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2037

Creating and Editing Custom Openings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2037

Creating a Profile for a Custom Opening . . . . . . . . . . . . 2037

Creating an Opening with a Custom Shape . . . . . . . . . . . 2038

Editing the Geometry of a Custom Opening . . . . . . . . . . 2041

Creating an Opening Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2044

Editing Openings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2046

Using Grips to Edit Openings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2046

Changing the Shape and Dimensions of an Opening . . . . . . 2048

Flipping an Opening along the X or Y Axis . . . . . . . . . . . 2048

Changing Endcap Style for an Opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2049

Applying Tool Properties to an Existing Opening . . . . . . . . 2049

Repositioning an Opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2050

Using Anchors to Change the Position and Orientation of an

Opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2053

Center an Opening Using Modify Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2059

Create an Opening Array Using Modify Tools . . . . . . . . . . 2059

Repositioning an Opening with Modify Tools . . . . . . . . . . 2060

Spacing Openings Evenly with Modify Tools . . . . . . . . . . 2060

Changing the Cut Plane Setting for an Opening . . . . . . . . 2061

Specifying the Display of Sills for an Opening . . . . . . . . . . 2061

Specifying the Display of Custom Block Components of an

Opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2063

Specifying the Display of Fill Type for an Opening . . . . . . . 2064

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, and Files to an Opening . . . . . 2066

Changing the Display Properties of Openings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2066

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Specifying the Display Properties of an Opening . . . . . . . . 2067

Specifying the Hatching of an Opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2068

Using Custom Blocks to Create Opening Components . . . . . 2070

Adding Components to an Opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2070

Turning Off Custom Components in an Opening . . . . . . . . 2071

Removing Custom Components from an Opening . . . . . . . 2072

Chapter 27 Stairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2073

Stairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2073

Solution Tips for Stairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2074

Specifying AEC Options for Stairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2078

Using Stair Tools to Create Stairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2079

Creating a Stair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2080

Creating a Straight Stair with User-Specified Settings . . . . . . . . . 2080

Creating a Multi-Landing Stair with User-Specified Settings . . . . . 2085

Creating an L-Shaped Stair with 45-Degree Tread . . . . . . . . . . . 2092

Creating a U-Shaped Stair with User-Specified Settings . . . . . . . . 2095

Creating a Spiral Stair with User-Specified Settings . . . . . . . . . . 2102

Creating a Custom Stair from Linework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2109

Creating a Custom Stair from Tread Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2113

Modifying Custom Stairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2117

Creating a Ramp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2122

Creating a Stair Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2124

Editing Stairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2126

Using Grips to Edit Stairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2126

Changing the Width of a Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2150

Changing the Shape of a Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2152

Changing the Shape of a Landing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2154

Changing the Side of a Stair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2156

Changing the Height of a Stair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2164

Changing the Justification of a Stair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2166

Changing the Style of a Stair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2166

Changing the Horizontal Direction of a Spiral or U-Shaped

Stair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2166

Changing the Constraints of a Spiral Stair . . . . . . . . . . . . 2167

Changing the Outside Edge of a Spiral Stair . . . . . . . . . . . 2168

Changing the Dimensions of a Stair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2171

Changing the Floor Settings of a Stair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2174

Adjusting Stair Length Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2175

Changing the Length Limits of a Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2177

Anchoring a Stair to a Landing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2179

Releasing Anchored Stairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2181

Editing Winders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2181

Working with Stair Body Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2198

Stair Interference Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2207

Changing the Alignment of a U-Shaped Stair . . . . . . . . . . 2221

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Changing the Components of a Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2222

Changing the Components of a Landing . . . . . . . . . . . . 2223

About the Dimensions of Landing Components . . . . . . . . 2225

Changing the Extension of a Landing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2226

Specifying Stair Component Display by Cut Plane

Elevation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2227

Changing the Display of an Overlapping Stair . . . . . . . . . 2233

Applying Tool Properties to an Existing Stair . . . . . . . . . . 2235

Changing the Location of a Stair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2235

Specifying the Materials of a Stair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2236

Changing the Display Properties of Individual Stairs . . . . . . 2237

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, or Files to a Stair . . . . . . . . . 2246

Stair Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2247

Managing Stair Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2248

Creating a Stair Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2248

Specifying the Design Rules of a Stair Style . . . . . . . . . . . 2249

Specifying the Stringers of a Stair Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2251

Specifying Mitered Corners for Center Stringers . . . . . . . . . 2253

Specifying the Components of a Stair Style . . . . . . . . . . . 2256

Specifying the Landing Extension of a Stair Style . . . . . . . . 2258

Assigning Materials to Components in a Stair Style . . . . . . . 2260

Specifying the Display Properties of a Stair Style . . . . . . . . 2262

Specifying the Riser Numbering Display of a Stair Style . . . . . 2268

Specifying Classifications for a Stair Style . . . . . . . . . . . . 2269

Adding Notes and Files to a Stair Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2270

Stair Winder Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2271

Creating a Stair Winder Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2271

Specifying the Stair Winder Style Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 2272

Adding Notes and Files to a Stair Winder Style . . . . . . . . . 2273

Stair Tower Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2274

Creating a Stair Tower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2274

Modifying a Stair Tower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2277

Chapter 28 Railings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2279

Railings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2279

Using Railing Tools to Create Railings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2281

Creating a Railing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2282

Creating an Attached Railing with User-Specified Settings . . . . . . 2282

Creating a Freestanding Railing with User-Specified Settings . . . . . 2286

Creating a Railing from a Polyline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2290

Creating a Railing Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2290

Editing Railings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2292

Using Grips to Edit Railings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2292

Adding a Post to a Railing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2293

Removing a Post from a Railing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2294

Redistributing Posts on a Railing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2295

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Hiding Posts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2295

Showing Hidden Posts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2295

Reversing the Direction of the Railing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2296

Anchoring an Existing Railing to a Stair . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2296

Anchoring an Existing Railing to an Object . . . . . . . . . . . 2297

Releasing an Anchored Railing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2299

Center a Railing Using Modify Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2299

Create a Railing Array Using Modify Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . 2299

Repositioning a Railing with Modify Tools . . . . . . . . . . . 2300

Spacing Railings Evenly with Modify Tools . . . . . . . . . . . 2300

Specifying the Display of Custom Block Components of a

Railing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2301

Specifying Cleanup Settings for a Railing . . . . . . . . . . . . 2305

Adding a Custom Profile to a Railing Component . . . . . . . . 2306

Editing a Custom Profile of a Railing Component . . . . . . . . 2307

Specifying the Display of a Custom Profile Component of a

Railing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2311

Changing the Style of a Railing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2315

Changing the Upper Rails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2315

Changing the Bottom Rails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2317

Changing the Posts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2318

Changing the Railing Extensions at Floor Levels . . . . . . . . 2319

Changing the Railing Extensions at Landings . . . . . . . . . . 2320

Changing the Anchor Properties of a Railing . . . . . . . . . . 2321

Specifying Perpendicular Railing Orientation . . . . . . . . . . 2322

Changing the Location of a Railing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2324

Applying Tool Properties to an Existing Railing . . . . . . . . . 2326

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, and Files to a Railing . . . . . . . 2326

Railing Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2327

Creating a Railing Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2329

Specifying the Upper Rails of a Railing Style . . . . . . . . . . . 2330

Specifying the Bottom Rails of a Railing Style . . . . . . . . . . 2332

Specifying Posts of a Railing Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2333

Specifying the Components of a Railing Style . . . . . . . . . . 2335

Creating a Profile for a Custom Railing Component . . . . . . 2337

Specifying the Railing Extensions of a Railing Style . . . . . . . 2337

Specifying the Materials of a Railing Style . . . . . . . . . . . . 2339

Specifying the Display Components of a Railing Style . . . . . 2342

Specifying Classifications for a Railing Style . . . . . . . . . . . 2343

Attaching Notes and Files to a Railing Style . . . . . . . . . . . 2343

Adding Custom Railing Blocks and Profiles to a Railing Style . . . . . 2344

Adding a Custom Block to a Railing Style . . . . . . . . . . . . 2344

Adding a Custom Profile to a Railing Style . . . . . . . . . . . . 2349

Turning Off a Custom Block or Custom Profile in a Railing

Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2354

Removing a Custom Block from a Railing Style . . . . . . . . . 2354

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Chapter 29 Roofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2357

Roofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2357

Using Roof Tools to Create Roofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2358

Creating a Slope Roof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2359

Creating a Gable Roof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2360

Creating Dormers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2362

Creating a Slope Roof with User-Specified Settings . . . . . . . . . . 2362

Creating a Gable Roof with User-Specified Settings . . . . . . . . . . 2363

Creating a Roof from Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2364

Creating a Roof from Polylines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2365

Creating a Roof Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2366

Editing Roofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2368

Using Grips to Edit Roofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2369

Applying Tool Properties to an Existing Roof . . . . . . . . . . 2369

Changing the Dimensions of a Roof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2370

Changing the Edges and Faces of a Roof . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2371

Converting a Roof to Roof Slabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2372

Specifying the Material of a Roof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2373

Specifying the Display Properties of a Roof . . . . . . . . . . . 2374

Specifying the Hatching of a Roof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2375

Changing the Location of a Roof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2376

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, or Files to a Roof . . . . . . . . . 2377

Chapter 30 Slabs and Roof Slabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2379

Overview of Slabs and Roof Slabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2379

Using Tools to Create Slabs and Roof Slabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2384

Creating a Slab or a Roof Slab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2384

Creating a Slab/Roof Slab with User-Specified Settings . . . . . . . . 2386

Creating a Slab or Roof Slab from Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2389

Creating a Roof Slab from a Roof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2392

Creating a Slab or Roof Slab from a Polyline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2393

Creating a Slab from a Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2396

Creating a Slab or Roof Slab Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2397

Editing Slabs and Roof Slabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2400

Using Grips to Edit Slabs/Roof Slabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2401

Applying Tool Properties to an Existing Slab/Roof Slab . . . . . 2420

Changing the Properties of Slabs or Roof Slabs . . . . . . . . . 2420

Using Slab and Roof Slab Contextual Tools . . . . . . . . . . . 2426

Creating a Clipped Gable Roof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2458

Creating a Dormer in a Roof Slab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2459

Slab and Roof Slab Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2460

Creating a Slab or Roof Slab Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2461

Specifying the Components of a Slab or Roof Slab Style . . . . 2463

Specifying the Materials of a Slab or Roof Slab Style . . . . . . . 2470

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Specifying the Display Properties of a Slab or Roof Slab

Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2473

Adding Classifications to a Slab or Roof Slab Style . . . . . . . 2478

Defining a Slab/Roof Slab Style as Bounding for Associative

Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2478

Attaching Notes and Files to a Slab or Roof Slab Style . . . . . . 2479

Slab and Roof Slab Edge Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2480

Creating a Slab or Roof Slab Edge Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2482

Specifying the Overhang, Edge Cut, and Angle of a Slab/Roof

Slab Edge Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2484

Creating Profiles for the Fascia and Soffit . . . . . . . . . . . . 2485

Controlling Profile Edges and Extrusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2487

Specifying a Fascia and a Soffit for a Slab/Roof Slab Edge

Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2488

Editing the Geometry of Fascia and Soffits . . . . . . . . . . . 2490

Assigning Materials to a Slab/Roof Slab Edge Style . . . . . . . 2494

Turning on Materials for a Slab/Roof Slab Edge Style . . . . . . 2495

Attaching Notes and Files to a Slab/Roof Slab Edge Style . . . . 2496

Chapter 31 Structural Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2499

Structural Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2499

Workflow to Create Styles for Structural Members . . . . . . . . . . 2504

Creating Structural Member Styles in the Structural Member

Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2505

Opening the Structural Member Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . 2507

Creating a Style from a Shape in the Structural Member

Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2507

Locating a Shape in the Structural Member Catalog from a

Structural Member in a Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2509

Opening a Catalog File in the Structural Member Catalog . . . 2509

Creating a Structural Member Style with the Structural Member Style

Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2510

Creating Columns with User-Defined Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2512

Creating Structural Member Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2513

Creating a Beam Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2513

Creating a Brace Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2518

Creating a Column Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2523

Using Structural Member Tools to Create Structural Members . . . . 2527

Creating a Beam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2528

Creating Beams with User-Specified Settings . . . . . . . . . . 2530

Creating a Brace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2539

Creating a Brace with User-Specified Settings . . . . . . . . . . 2540

Creating a Freestanding Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2545

Creating a Freestanding Column with User-Specified

Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2546

Creating Columns with User-Defined Profiles . . . . . . . . . . 2550

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Creating Grid-Anchored Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2551

Creating Grid-Anchored Columns with User-Specified

Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2553

Creating a Structural Member from Linework . . . . . . . . . . 2558

Editing Structural Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2559

Using Grips To Edit Structural Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2560

Changing the Structural Member Length . . . . . . . . . . . . 2566

Changing the Structural Member Start and End Offsets . . . . . 2567

Changing the Structural Member Start Point and Endpoint . . 2569

Changing the Structural Member Roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2570

Changing the Radius of a Curved Structural Member . . . . . . 2571

About Curved Structural Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2572

Changing the Structural Member Justification . . . . . . . . . 2573

Changing the Structural Member Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2575

Trimming Structural Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2576

Changing the Style of a Structural Member . . . . . . . . . . . 2584

Applying Tool Properties to a Structural Member . . . . . . . . 2584

Specifying the Cut Plane Display of a Structural Member . . . . 2584

Specifying the Display of Custom Block Components of a

Structural Member . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2586

Specifying the Offsets for a Structural Member in Plan Low

Detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2588

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, and Files to a Structural

Member . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2589

Working with Structural Member Body Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . 2589

Adding a Body Modifier to a Structural Member . . . . . . . . 2590

Subtracting a Body Modifier from a Structural Member . . . . . 2591

Replacing a Structural Member with a Body Modifier . . . . . . 2593

Editing the Geometry of a Body Modifier . . . . . . . . . . . . 2594

Managing Body Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2597

Restoring a Body Modifier to a Mass Element . . . . . . . . . . 2598

Working with Structural Member Interference Conditions . . . . . . 2598

Creating Structural Member Interference Conditions . . . . . . 2599

Removing Structural Member Interference Conditions . . . . . 2601

Editing Structural Member Interference Conditions . . . . . . . 2601

Structural Member Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2602

Creating a Structural Member Style in the Style Manager . . . . 2603

Specifying the Materials of a Structural Member Style . . . . . . 2604

Specifying the Display Properties of a Structural Member

Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2607

Specifying Classifications for a Structural Member Style . . . . 2617

Defining a Structural Member Style as Bounding for Associative

Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2618

Attaching Notes and Files to a Structural Member Style . . . . . 2618

Creating Custom Structural Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2619

Understanding the Design Rules of a Structural Member . . . . 2622

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Changing the Shape in the Style of a Structural Member . . . . 2625

Adding a Shape to a Structural Member . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2626

Process Overview: Creating a Single-Component Structural

Member (Tapered Column) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2627

Process Overview: Creating a Multi-Component Structural

Member (Composite Column) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2630

Process Overview: Creating a Multi-Component Structural

Member Using Multiple Segments (Rigid Frame) . . . . . . . 2633

Creating Custom Shapes for Structural Members . . . . . . . . 2640

Design Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2645

Chapter 32 Anchors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2647

Anchors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2647

Working with Object Anchors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2648

Adding Object Anchors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2649

Releasing Object Anchors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2650

Working with Curve Anchors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2651

Adding Curve Anchors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2651

Changing the Position of Objects Anchored to Curves . . . . . 2652

Anchoring Objects to New Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2656

Working with Leader Anchors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2657

Adding Leader Anchors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2657

Changing the Position of Objects Anchored to Layout Nodes

with Leader Anchors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2658

Grip-Editing Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2659

Extending Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2660

Copying Objects to All Layout Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2660

Working with Node Anchors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2661

Adding Node Anchors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2661

Changing the Position of Objects Anchored to Layout Nodes

with Node Anchors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2662

Anchoring Objects to Different Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2663

Copying Objects to All Layout Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2664

Working with Cell Anchors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2665

Adding Cell Anchors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2666

Changing the Position and Size of Objects Anchored to Layout

Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2667

Anchoring Objects to a Different Cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2668

Copying Objects to All Layout Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2669

Working with Volume Anchors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2669

Adding Volume Anchors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2669

Changing the Position and Size of Objects Anchored to

Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2670

Anchoring Objects to a Different Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . 2672

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Copying Objects to All Layout Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2672

Releasing and Positioning Anchored Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2673

Releasing Anchored Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2673

Positioning Anchored Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2673

Creating an Anchor Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2674

Chapter 33 Layout Curves and Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2677

Layout Curves and Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2677

Using Layout Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2678

Creating a Layout Curve Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2679

Adding Layout Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2680

Adding Nodes to Layout Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2683

Removing Nodes from Layout Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2684

Changing the Offsets of Layout Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2685

Changing the Node Spacing of a Layout Curve . . . . . . . . . 2686

Changing the Node Positions on a Layout Curve . . . . . . . . 2687

Changing the Spacing Mode of Layout Curves . . . . . . . . . 2688

Switching Layout Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2689

Changing the Display Properties of Layout Curves . . . . . . . 2690

Changing the Node Radius for a Layout Curve . . . . . . . . . 2691

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, or Files to a Layout Curve . . . . 2692

Using Layout Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2693

Creating a Layout Grid Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2693

Adding Radial Layout Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2694

Changing Radial Layout Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2696

Adding Rectangular Layout Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2697

Changing Rectangular Layout Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2698

Creating a Layout Grid with User-Specified Settings . . . . . . . 2699

Creating a Custom Layout Grid from Linework . . . . . . . . . 2701

Adding Lines to Layout Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2702

Removing Grid Lines from Layout Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2703

Changing the Spacing Mode of Layout Grids . . . . . . . . . . 2704

Changing the Display Properties of Layout Grids . . . . . . . . 2705

Changing the Node Radius for a Layout Grid . . . . . . . . . . 2706

Creating and Removing Boundaries for Layout Grids . . . . . . 2707

Creating Holes in Layout Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2708

Removing Holes from Layout Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2708

Changing the Location of Layout Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2708

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, or Files to a Layout Grid . . . . . 2709

Using Layout Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2710

Creating a Layout Volume Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2710

Adding Layout Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2712

Changing Layout Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2714

Adding Grid Lines to Layout Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2714

Removing Grid Lines from Layout Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . 2715

Changing the Spacing Mode of Layout Volumes . . . . . . . . 2716

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Changing the Display Properties of Layout Volumes . . . . . . 2718

Changing the Node Radius for a Layout Volume . . . . . . . . 2718

Changing the Location of Layout Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . 2719

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, or Files to a Layout Volume . . . 2720

Chapter 34 Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2723

Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2723

Using Column Grid Tools to Create Column Grids . . . . . . . . . . 2724

Creating Rectangular and Radial Column Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . 2725

Creating a Column Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2726

Creating a Column Grid from a Layout Grid . . . . . . . . . . 2729

Creating a Column Grid Dynamically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2730

Creating a Structural Column Grid Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2730

Creating a Custom Column Grid from Linework . . . . . . . . . . . 2732

Creating Enhanced Custom Column Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2732

Creating a Rectangular Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2734

Creating a Radial Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2737

Editing the List of Preconfigured Bay Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . 2739

Creating an Enhanced Grid with Different Sized Grid Bays . . . 2740
Creating an Enhanced Grid with Varying Grid Lines for each

side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2741

Defining the Display of Grid Numbering when Inserting the

Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2745

Defining the Numbering and Lettering Scheme for Grid

Bubbles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2747

Defining the Numbering Scheme for Secondary Grid Lines . . . 2748

Editing Column Grids and Custom Column Grids . . . . . . . . . . 2749

Labeling Column Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2750

Dimensioning Column Grids with Automatic AEC

Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2751

Changing the Dimensions of a Column Grid . . . . . . . . . . 2752

Changing the Lines of a Column Grid or Custom Column

Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2753

Editing Enhanced Custom Column Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2760

Adding Lines to an Enhanced Custom Column Grid . . . . . . 2760

Removing Lines from an Enhanced Custom Column Grid . . . 2761

Dimensioning an Enhanced Custom Column Grid . . . . . . . 2762

Adding Labels to an Enhanced Custom Column Grid after

Insertion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2763

Editing Labels on an Enhanced Custom Column Grid . . . . . 2764

Dimensioning Individual Grid Bays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2765

Editing General Column Grid Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2765

Attaching Clipping Profiles to Column Grids . . . . . . . . . . 2765

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, or Files to a Column Grid . . . . 2767

Changing the Location of Column Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . 2768

Changing the Display of Column Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2769

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Changing the Node Radius for a Column Grid . . . . . . . . . 2770

Using Ceiling Grid Tools to Create Ceiling Grids . . . . . . . . . . . 2771

Creating a Ceiling Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2772

Creating a Ceiling Grid with User-Specified Settings . . . . . . 2772

Creating a Ceiling Grid from a Layout Grid . . . . . . . . . . . 2774

Creating a Custom Ceiling Grid from Linework . . . . . . . . . 2774

Creating a Ceiling Grid Dynamically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2775

Creating a Ceiling Grid with a Clipping Boundary . . . . . . . 2776

Creating a Ceiling Grid Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2777

Editing Ceiling Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2778

Changing the Dimensions of a Ceiling Grid . . . . . . . . . . . 2778

Changing the Lines of a Ceiling Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2779

Attaching Clipping Profiles to Ceiling Grids . . . . . . . . . . . 2786

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, or Files to a Ceiling Grid . . . . . 2789

Changing the Location of Ceiling Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2790

Changing the Display of Ceiling Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2791

Changing the Node Radius for a Ceiling Grid . . . . . . . . . . 2791

Chapter 35 Detail Drafting Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2793

Construction Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2793

Creating Construction Lines From Existing

Objects/Linework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2793

Creating Construction Lines Independently . . . . . . . . . . . 2796

Hatch Productivity Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2796

Repositioning a Hatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2797

Generating a Hatch Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2797

Redefining a Hatch Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2798

AEC Modify Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2802

Trimming Linework or Profile-Based Objects . . . . . . . . . . 2803

Trimming Linework or Profile-Based Objects to an Edge . . . . 2804

Extending Linework to an Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2805

Dividing Linework and Profile-Based Objects . . . . . . . . . . 2806

Subtracting from Linework and Profile-Based Objects . . . . . . 2808

Obscuring Regions of Linework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2809

Merging Linework or Profile-Based Objects . . . . . . . . . . . 2810

Cropping Linework or Profile-Based Objects . . . . . . . . . . . 2811

Shrinkwrapping Linework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2813

Creating Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2814

Repositioning from a Reference Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2815

Evenly Spacing Linework or Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2815

Centering Linework or Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2816

Chapter 36 Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2817

What are Profiles? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2817

Creating Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2819

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Defining the Direction of Profile Edges and Extrusion . . . . . . . . 2820

Adding a Profile to an Object Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2823

Editing a Profile In Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2824

Converting Profiles to Polylines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2828

Chapter 37 Mask Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2831

Mask Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2831

Creating Mask Block Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2832

Creating a Mask Block Definition from a Polyline . . . . . . . . 2832

Creating a Mask Block Definition from an Existing Mask Block

Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2833

Importing Mask Block Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2834

Exporting Mask Block Definitions to a New Drawing . . . . . . 2835

Exporting Mask Block Definitions to an Existing Drawing . . . 2835

Editing a Mask Block Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2836

Adding Classifications to a Mask Block Definition . . . . . . . 2838

Purging Mask Block Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2839

Using Mask Block Tools to Create Mask Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . 2839

Adding a Mask Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2840

Adding a Mask Block with User-Specified Settings . . . . . . . . 2841

Creating a Mask Block from Polylines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2842

Creating a Mask Block Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2842

Attaching Mask Blocks to Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2845

Detaching Mask Blocks from Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2846

Editing Mask Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2846

Using Grips to Move Mask Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2847

Changing the Location of a Mask Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2847

Editing the Profile of a Mask Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2848

Applying Tool Properties to an Existing Mask Block

Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2851

Changing Display Properties of Mask Blocks . . . . . . . . . . 2851

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, and Files to a Mask Block . . . . . 2852

Chapter 38 Multi-View Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2855

Multi-View Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2855

Creating Multi-View Block Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2856

Process Overview: Creating Multi-View Block Definitions . . . 2857

Creating View Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2857

Creating a New Multi-View Block Definition . . . . . . . . . . 2859

Connecting View Blocks to View Directions . . . . . . . . . . . 2860

Defining a Multi-View Block Definition as Bounding for

Associative Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2862

Attaching Notes and Files to a Multi-View Block

Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2862

Adding Classifications to a Multi-View Block Definition . . . . 2863

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Adding a Multi-View Block Definition to DesignCenter . . . . . 2864

Creating a Multi-View Block Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2866

Adding Multi-View Blocks to a Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2869

Inserting a Multi-View Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2869

Modifying Multi-View Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2871

Changing the Rotation of a Multi-View Block . . . . . . . . . . 2871

Changing the Associated Multi-View Block Definition . . . . . 2871

Changing the Scale Factor of a Multi-View Block . . . . . . . . 2872

Changing the Offset of a Multi-View Block Using Grips . . . . 2872

Changing the Location of a Multi-View Block Using Grips . . . 2873
Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, or Files to a Multi-View

Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2875

Editing the Location and Rotation of Attributes in a Multi-View

Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2876

Updating Multi-View Block Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2877

Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2879

Chapter 39 Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2881

Space Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2881

Workflows for Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2884

Workflow for Generating Associative Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . 2884

Workflow for Manually Defining Net, Usable, and Gross

Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2884

Workflow for Determining Net, Usable, and Gross Areas With

a Calculation Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2885

Workflow for Creating a Space Evaluation Report . . . . . . . . 2886

Adjusting Space Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2887

Working with List Definitions - Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . 2887

Working with Zones - Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2888

Working with Calculation Modifiers - Overview . . . . . . . . . 2890

Working with Calculation Cut Planes - Overview . . . . . . . . 2891

Moving Forward to AutoCAD Architecture 2011 from Autodesk

Architectural Desktop 2006 and Earlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2892

Auto-Converting Legacy Areas to Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2895

Space Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2897

Using Space Tools to Create Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2903

Generating Associative Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2904

Boundary Objects for Associative Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2905

Generating an Associative Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2916

Generating Associative Spaces from Xrefs and Blocks . . . . . . 2921

Defining a Maximum Gap Size for Associative Spaces . . . . . . 2926

Updating Associative Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2927

Activating and Deactivating Automatic Updates . . . . . . . . 2928

Manually Updating Associative Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2930

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Merging Associative Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2931

Dividing an Associative Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2933

Deducting Spaces from an Associative Space . . . . . . . . . . 2935

Making a Space Associative or Non-Associative . . . . . . . . . 2936

Troubleshooting Associative Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2938

Creating Non-Associative Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2947

Drawing a Non-Associative 2D or Extruded 3D Space . . . . . 2947

Converting Objects, Profiles, and Polylines to Non-Associative

Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2951

Creating a Space Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2955

Editing General Space Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2960

Renaming a Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2961

Changing the Style of a Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2961

Changing the Location of a Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2961

Specifying the Decomposition Type for a Space . . . . . . . . . 2962

Specifying the Decomposition Text Properties for a Space . . . 2964

Specifying the Cut Plane Display of a Space . . . . . . . . . . . 2966

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, or Files to a Space . . . . . . . . . 2967

Working with Space Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2968

Working with Manual Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2969

Working with Style-Based Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2970

Working with Boundaries Based on an Area Calculation

Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2970

Defining the Boundary Offset Type of a Space . . . . . . . . . . 2972

Specifying an Area Calculation Standard for a Drawing . . . . . 2974

Classifying a Space According to an Area Calculation

Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2976

Changing the Area Calculation Standard for Existing

Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2977

Working with Drawings with Different Area Calculation

Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2977

User-Defined Area Calculation Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . 2978

Editing Space Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2978

Changing the Type of a Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2990

Changing the Space Height . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2993

Changing the Height of Extruded 3D Spaces . . . . . . . . . . 2993

Changing the Height of 3D Freeform Spaces . . . . . . . . . . 2995

Changing the Height of Space Surfaces (Extruded 3D

Spaces) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2997

Boolean Operations for Extruded 3D Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2998

Creating Interference Conditions for Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . 2999

Removing Interference Conditions from Spaces . . . . . . . . . 3000

Merging Extruded 3D Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3000

Dividing Extruded 3D Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3004

Creating Holes in Extruded 3D Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3005

Creating Spaces from the Intersection of Other Spaces . . . . . 3006

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Trimming an Extruded 3D Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3011

Removing Voids from Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3013

Reversing Space Rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3013

Reversing All Rings in a Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3014

Boolean Operations for 3D Freeform Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3014

Trimming 3D Freeform Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3014

Splitting Surfaces of 3D Freeform Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3016

Joining Surfaces of 3D Freeform Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3017

Merging 3D Freeform Spaces with AEC Objects . . . . . . . . . 3018

Subtracting AEC Objects from 3D Freeform Spaces . . . . . . . 3019

Intersecting 3D Freeform Spaces with AEC Objects . . . . . . . 3020

Grip-Editing the Surfaces of 3D Freeform Spaces . . . . . . . . 3021

Editing Space Surface Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3025

Opening the Space/Zone Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3026

Editing Surface Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3028

Editing Ceiling and Floor Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3029

Working with Surface Openings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3031

Setting Up Adjacency Relations between Space Surfaces . . . . 3055

Displaying Adjacency Relations between Space Surfaces . . . . 3056

Space Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3057

Creating a Space Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3058

Specifying Target Dimensions for the Space . . . . . . . . . . . 3059

Specifying Space Boundary Offsets in a Space Style . . . . . . . 3060

Attaching a List Definition to a Space Style . . . . . . . . . . . 3061

Specifying Classifications for a Space Style . . . . . . . . . . . 3062

Specifying the Materials of a Space Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3062

Specifying the Display Properties of a Space Style . . . . . . . . 3065

Specifying the Hatching for Components of a Space Style . . . 3068

Setting the Object Cut Plane of a Space Style . . . . . . . . . . 3070

Attaching Notes and Files to a Space Style . . . . . . . . . . . . 3071

Converting Area Styles to Space Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3072

List Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3073

Creating a List Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3075

Specifying the Application for a List Definition . . . . . . . . . 3075

Editing a List Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3076

Attaching Notes and Files to a List Definition . . . . . . . . . . 3076

Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3077

Using Zone Tools to Create Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3079

Zone Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3080

Creating a Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3083

Creating Zones with User-Specified Settings . . . . . . . . . . . 3083

Creating Zone Structures from a Zone Template . . . . . . . . . 3085

Creating a Zone Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3087

Converting Area Groups to Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3089

Zones and Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3090

Attaching Spaces and Zones to Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3091

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Detaching Spaces and Zones from Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . 3092

Selecting Spaces and Zones Attached to a Zone . . . . . . . . . 3092

Editing Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3093

Renaming a Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3093

Changing the Zone Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3093

Changing the Zone Boundary Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3094

Changing the Content Rules of a Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3095

Changing the Calculation Type of a Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . 3095

Changing Calculation Modifiers for a Zone . . . . . . . . . . . 3096

Ordering Zone Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3097

Creating Polylines from Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3098

Specifying Additional Display Properties for a Zone . . . . . . . 3100

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, or Files to a Zone . . . . . . . . . 3102

Zone Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3102

Creating a Zone Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3103

Attaching a List Definition to a Zone Style . . . . . . . . . . . 3104

Restricting the Content of a Zone Based on the Zone Style . . . 3105

Specifying Classifications for a Zone Style . . . . . . . . . . . . 3106

Specifying the Display Properties of a Zone Style . . . . . . . . 3106

Attaching Notes or Files to a Zone Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3112

Converting Area Group Styles to Zone Styles . . . . . . . . . . 3112

Zone Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3114

Creating a Zone Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3115

Building the Structure of a Zone Template . . . . . . . . . . . . 3116

Attaching Notes and Files to a Zone Template . . . . . . . . . . 3119

Converting Area Group Templates to Zone Templates . . . . . 3120

Working with Space Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3121

Schedule Properties of Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3121

Calculation Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3127

Setting Calculation Cut Planes for 3D Freeform Spaces . . . . . 3133

Generating Output Data and Exporting Space Data . . . . . . . 3134

Space Decomposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3135

Space Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3140

Using Spaces for Load Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3152

Conversion of Space Boundaries to Walls and Spaces . . . . . . . . . 3160

Appendix 1: Command Changes for Spaces and Areas . . . . . . . . 3161

Area Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3161

Area Group Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3162

Space Boundary Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3163

Appendix 2: Predefined Area Calculation Standards . . . . . . . . . . 3164

Calculating Spaces Based on the Basic Area Calculation

Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3165

Calculating Spaces Based on the DIN 277 Standard . . . . . . . 3166

Calculating Spaces Based on the SIS Standard . . . . . . . . . . 3170

Calculating Spaces Based on the BOMA Standard . . . . . . . . 3175

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Appendix 3: Implementing an Area Calculation Standard Plug-in

with the AutoCAD Architecture .NET API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3180

Implementing an Area Calculation Standard . . . . . . . . . . 3181

Implementing Offset Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3189

Chapter 40 Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3213

Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3213

Workflow to Create a 2D or 3D Section or a Live Section View . . . . 3219

Drawing and Editing Section Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3220

Drawing a Section Line and Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3222

Changing the Height of a Section Using Grips . . . . . . . . . 3224

Changing the Lower Extension of a Section Using Grips . . . . 3225

Changing the Length of a Section Using Grips . . . . . . . . . 3226

Changing the Angle Dimensions of a Section . . . . . . . . . . 3228

Creating Graphic Subdivisions for 2D and 3D Sections . . . . . 3229

Changing a Subdivision Using Grips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3230

Changing Section Mark Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3230

Changing the Location of a Section Line . . . . . . . . . . . . 3231

Modifying a Section Line Using Grips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3232

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, and Files to a Section Line . . . . 3233

Creating a 2D or 3D Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3233

Creating a Horizontal 2D Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3235

Creating and Editing a Live Section View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3237

Creating a Live Section View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3238

Updating a Live Section View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3239

Displaying the Sectioned Body in a Live Section View . . . . . 3239

Removing a Live Section View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3241

Editing a 2D or 3D Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3241

Using Grips to Edit Linework in a 2D Section . . . . . . . . . . 3242

Changing the Display of Graphic Subdivisions in a 2D

Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3243

Changing the Display of Graphic Subdivisions in a 3D

Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3245

Reversing a 2D or 3D Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3246

Changing the Style of a 2D Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3247

Creating a Material Boundary in a 2D Section . . . . . . . . . . 3247

Editing a Material Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3248

Editing and Merging Linework in a 2D Section . . . . . . . . . 3253

Changing the Location of a 2D or 3D Section . . . . . . . . . . 3255

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, and Files to a 2D or 3D

Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3256

Updating a 2D or 3D Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3257

Globally Updating 2D Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3259

Supported Project Drawing Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3260

Globally Updating 2D Sections and Elevations in a Project or

a Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3261

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Updating Legacy Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3262

2D Section Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3263

Creating a 2D Section Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3265

Adding a Display Component to a 2D Section Style . . . . . . . 3266

Removing a Display Component from a 2D Section Style . . . . 3267

About 2D and 3D Section Display Components and

Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3268

Use Subdivision Properties and Materials in 2D Section

Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3275

Use the 3D Body Component of a Material for the 2D Section

Linework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3275

Adding a Design Rule to a 2D Section Style . . . . . . . . . . . 3276

Changing a Design Rule in a 2D Section Style . . . . . . . . . . 3278

Removing a Design Rule from a 2D Section Style . . . . . . . . 3278

Adding Classifications to a 2D Section Style . . . . . . . . . . . 3279

Changing the Layer, Color, and Linetype of a 2D Section

Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3279

Attaching Notes and Files to a 2D Section Style . . . . . . . . . 3280

Chapter 41 Elevations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3283

Working With Elevations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3283

Workflow to Create a 2D or 3D Elevation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3289

Drawing and Editing Elevation Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3290

Drawing an Elevation Line and Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3293

Changing the Height of an Elevation Using Grips . . . . . . . . 3295

Changing the Lower Extension of an Elevation Using

Grips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3296

Changing the Length of an Elevation Using Grips . . . . . . . 3297

Changing the Angle Dimensions of an Elevation . . . . . . . . 3298

Creating Graphic Subdivisions for 2D and 3D Elevations . . . . 3299

Changing Elevation Mark Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3301

Changing the Location of an Elevation Line . . . . . . . . . . 3301

Modifying an Elevation Line Using Grips . . . . . . . . . . . . 3302

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes and Files to an Elevation Line . . . 3303

Creating a 2D or 3D Elevation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3304

Creating a Horizontal 2D Elevation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3306

Editing a 2D or 3D Elevation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3308

Using Grips to Edit Linework in a 2D Elevation . . . . . . . . 3308

Changing the Display of Graphic Subdivisions in a 2D

Elevation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3310

Changing the Display of Graphic Subdivisions in a 3D

Elevation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3311

Reversing a 2D or 3D Elevation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3312

Changing the Style of a 2D Elevation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3313

Adding and Removing Custom Components for an

Elevation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3313

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Specifying the Display of Surface Hatching for an Elevation

Subdivision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3315

Specifying the Display of 2D Linework for an Elevation . . . . 3317

Creating a Material Boundary in a 2D Elevation . . . . . . . . . 3318

Editing a Material Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3319

Editing and Merging Linework in a 2D Elevation . . . . . . . . 3323

Changing the Location of a 2D or 3D Elevation . . . . . . . . . 3325

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, and Files to a 2D or 3D

Elevation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3326

Updating a 2D or 3D Elevation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3326

Globally Updating 2D Elevations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3328

Supported Project Drawing Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3329

Globally Updating 2D Sections and Elevations in a Project or

a Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3330

Updating Legacy Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3331

2D Elevation Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3331

Creating a 2D Elevation Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3333

Adding a Display Component to a 2D Elevation Style . . . . . 3335

Removing a Display Component from a 2D Elevation

Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3335

About 2D and 3D Elevation Display Components and

Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3336

Use Subdivision Properties and Materials in 2D Elevation

Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3340

Use the 3D Body Component of a Material for the 2D Elevation

Linework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3341

Adding a Design Rule to a 2D Elevation Style . . . . . . . . . . 3341

Changing a Design Rule in a 2D Elevation Style . . . . . . . . . 3343

Removing a Design Rule from a 2D Elevation Style . . . . . . . 3344

Adding Classifications to a 2D Elevation Style . . . . . . . . . . 3344

Changing the Layer, Color, and Linetype of a 2D Elevation

Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3345

Attaching Notes and Files to a 2D Elevation Style . . . . . . . . 3346

Chapter 42 Hidden Line Projection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3347

Hidden Line Projection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3347

Creating a Hidden Line Projection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3347

Chapter 43 AEC Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3349

AEC Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3349

Dimension Options and Uses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3351

Associative Dimensions from Selecting Objects . . . . . . . . . 3351

Associative Dimensions from Picked Points . . . . . . . . . . . 3352

Non-Associative Dimensions from Picked Points . . . . . . . . 3353

AutoCAD Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3353

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Process Overview: Creating AEC Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . 3354

Associative Dimensions from Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3355

Dimension Points for Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3355

Dimension Points for Wall Openings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3358

Dimension Points for Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3358

Dimension Points for Other Object Types . . . . . . . . . . . . 3359

AutoCAD Dimension Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3360

Associative Dimensions in External References . . . . . . . . . 3363

Associative Dimensions From Picked Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3364

Specifying AEC Dimension Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3365

Creating AEC Dimensions Using AEC Dimension Tools . . . . . . . . 3368

Creating an AEC Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3369

Creating an AEC Dimension with User-Specified Settings . . . . . . 3370

Use Cases for AEC Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3373

Converting an AutoCAD Dimension to an AEC Dimension . . . . . 3380

Copying Properties of AEC Dimensions to AutoCAD Dimensions . . 3382

Creating an AEC Dimension Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3383

Editing AEC Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3384

Adding Points to an AEC Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3385

Detaching Dimension Points from an AEC Dimension . . . . . 3390

Restoring Object Points Set in the AEC Dimension Style . . . . 3392

Removing Non-Style Defined Dimension Points . . . . . . . . 3394

Reversing the Direction of an AEC Wall Dimension . . . . . . . 3395

Flip Text Position for AEC Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3397

Overriding Associative Wall Component Dimension

Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3398

Repositioning Dimension Texts, Extension Lines, and

Dimension Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3402

Resetting Repositioned Dimension Texts, Extension Lines and

Dimension Chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3403

Overriding Dimension Values and Hiding Dimension

Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3405

Changing the AEC Dimension Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3409

Specifying Object Dimension Points for an AEC

Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3409

Specifying the AutoCAD Style and Other Properties for an AEC

Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3411

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, and Files to an AEC

Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3414

AEC Dimension Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3415

AEC Dimension Styles and AutoCAD Dimension Styles . . . . . 3415

The AEC Dimension Style Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3416

Creating AutoCAD Dimension Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3416

Creating an AEC Dimension Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3417

Changing the Number of Chains in an AEC Dimension

Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3418

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Changing the AEC Dimension Display Components . . . . . . 3419

Defining Dimensioned Objects in the AEC Dimension

Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3420

Specifying Object Dimension Points in AEC Dimension

Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3422

Selecting the AutoCAD Dimension Styles and Other Properties

of AEC Dimension Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3424

Changing Style Properties with the AEC Dimension Style

Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3426

Attaching Notes and Files to an AEC Dimension Style . . . . . 3429

Q and A for Working with AEC Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3430

Changing Color, Text Size and Arrowheads . . . . . . . . . . . 3430

Updating AEC Dimensions On Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3430

Changing the Text Height of Superscripted Numbers . . . . . . 3431

Fixing the Error Symbol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3431

Finding More Dimension Points than Expected . . . . . . . . . 3432

Chapter 44 Elevation Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3433

Elevation Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3433

Using Elevation Label Tools to Create Elevation Labels . . . . . . . . 3434

Creating an Elevation Label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3435

Creating Elevation Labels with User-Specified Settings . . . . . 3435

Creating an Elevation Label Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3437

Modifying Elevation Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3438

Changing the Elevation of an Elevation Label . . . . . . . . . . 3439

Changing the Coordinate System of an Elevation Label . . . . 3439

Changing the Associated Multi-View Block Definition . . . . . 3439

Changing the Scale Factor of an Elevation Label . . . . . . . . 3440

Changing the Offset of an Elevation Label . . . . . . . . . . . 3440

Display the View Blocks and Attributes of an Elevation

Label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3441

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, or Files to an Elevation Label . . . 3442

Creating User-Defined Elevation Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3443

Creating a Graphic Symbol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3443

Adding Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3444

Creating a Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3445

Creating a Multi-View Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3445

Adding the Elevation Label to the AutoCAD DesignCenter . . . 3446

Chapter 45 Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3449

Fields Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3449

Inserting Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3451

Inserting Fields in a Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3451

Inserting Fields in Property Set Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . 3453

Inserting Field Placeholders in Object Properties . . . . . . . . 3456

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Adding Fields to Object Style Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3458

Inserting Fields in AutoCAD Text Elements . . . . . . . . . . . 3459

Editing Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3463

Editing the Field Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3466

Updating Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3466

Converting Fields to Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3467

AutoCAD Architecture Field Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3467

Project Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3467

Selecting a Project Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3468

Sheet Set Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3469

Selecting a Sheet Set Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3472

Keynote Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3474

Selecting a Keynote Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3475

Database Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3476

Selecting a Database Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3478

Creating a Data Link to an ODBC Source . . . . . . . . . . . . 3481

Chapter 46 Detail Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3489

Understanding Detail Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3489

Inserting Detail Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3490

Stamp Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3491

Linear Array Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3493

Backfill Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3494

Bookends Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3495

Countable Linear Array Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3496

Surface Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3498

Dynamically Sized Surface Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3499

Bolt Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3500

Editing Detail Components in a Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3501

Using Detail Component Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3504

Adding Detail Component Tools to a Tool Palette . . . . . . . . 3504

Modifying Detail Component Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3507

Applying Detail Component Properties to Linework . . . . . . 3510

Applying Detail Component Properties to Linework from a

Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3510

Applying Detail Component Properties to Linework from the

Detail Component Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3511

Using the Detail Component Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3511

Locating a Detail Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3512

Creating and Modifying Detail Component Databases . . . . . 3515

Configuring Detail Component Database Availability . . . . . . . . . 3545

Adding a Detail Component Database to Available

Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3545

Removing a Detail Component Database from Available

Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3547

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Setting Detail Component Database Permissions in a Multi-User

Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3547

Merging Old and New Detail Component Databases . . . . . . . . . 3548

Chapter 47 Annotation and Keynoting Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3549

The Basic Annotation Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3549

Creating a Text-Only Annotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3562

Creating Text with Single Leader Annotation . . . . . . . . . . 3562

Adding and Removing Leader Lines from Leaders . . . . . . . . 3564

Creating a Break Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3566

Creating a Block-Based Annotation with a Leader . . . . . . . . 3567

Editing a Text-Based Annotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3568

Editing a Masking Break Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3569

Editing a Block-Based Annotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3569

Keynoting Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3570

Configuring the Annotation Tool for Keynoting . . . . . . . . 3571

Using Keynote Insertion Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3575

Using Keynote Legends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3579

Viewing and Editing Keynotes in a Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . 3588

Specifying Keynotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3593

Working with Keynote Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3596

North Arrow and Datum Point Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3615

Inserting a North Arrow or Datum Point in the Drawing . . . . 3617

Fire Rating Line Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3617

Inserting a Fire Rating Line in the Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . 3619

Match Line Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3620

Inserting a Match Line in the Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3622

Revision Cloud Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3622

Inserting a Revision Cloud in the Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . 3625

Bar Scale Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3626

Inserting a Bar Scale in the Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3628

Column Grid Bubble Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3628

Inserting a Column Grid Bubble in the Drawing . . . . . . . . 3630

Editing Annotation Symbols in the Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3631

Editing Block-Based Annotation Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . 3631

Editing Polyline-Based Annotation Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . 3634

Annotation Scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3637

Annotation Tools with Annotative Properties . . . . . . . . . . 3637

Specifying Annotation Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3640

Annotation Scales and Viewports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3640

Updating Legacy Annotative Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3642

Derivation of Annotative Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3646

Chapter 48 Callouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3649

Working with Callouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3649

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Callout Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3652

Workflow for Annotating Drawings with Callouts . . . . . . . 3655

The Properties of a Callout Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3656

Setting the Properties of a Callout Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3663

Placing Title Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3664

Placing a Title Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3664

Placing Detail Callouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3665

Creating a Detail in the Current View Drawing . . . . . . . . . 3665

Creating a Detail in an Existing Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . 3668

Creating a Detail in a New Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3670

Placing Section Callouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3671

Creating a Section in the Current Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . 3672

Creating a Section in an Existing Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . 3674

Creating a Section in a New Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3677

Placing Elevation Callouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3679

Placing a Single Elevation Callout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3679

Placing a Four-Way Interior Elevation Callout . . . . . . . . . . 3681

Placing a Four-Way Exterior Elevation Callout . . . . . . . . . 3684

Placing a Callout Without a Model Space View . . . . . . . . . . . . 3685

Referencing a Callout to an Existing View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3687

Opening a Model Space View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3688

Deleting a Model Space View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3689

Resolving Fields in Callout Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3689

Working with Callouts Outside a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3690

Placing a Callout in a Non-Project Drawing File . . . . . . . . . 3691

Opening Model Space Views in a Non-Project Drawing File . . 3692
Deleting Model Space Views in a Non-Project Drawing File . . . 3693

Creating New Callout Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3694

Using Fields in Callout Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3694

Creating a Callout Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3695

Chapter 49 Schedules and Display Themes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3701

Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3701

Schedule Table Terminology in AutoCAD Architecture . . . . . 3702

Workflow to Annotate Drawings with Tags and Schedules . . . 3704

Property Sets and Property Set Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3705

Basic Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3709

Adding Schedules Using Schedule Table Tools . . . . . . . . . . 3709

Creating a Schedule Table Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3710

Adding Objects to a Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3713

Removing Objects from a Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3713

Reselecting Objects for a Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3714

Turning Off the Out-of-Date Marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3714

Updating a Schedule Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3715

Locating and Viewing Scheduled Objects in a Drawing . . . . . 3715

Schedule Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3716

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Adding Tags Using Schedule Tag Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3718

Creating a Schedule Tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3719

Creating a Schedule Tag Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3722

Anchoring an Existing Schedule Tag to an Object . . . . . . . . 3725

Releasing an Anchored Schedule Tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3726

Viewing the Connection Between Tags and Objects . . . . . . . 3726

Renumbering Property Set Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3727

Managing Schedule Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3728

Workflow to Customize Schedule Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3729

Working with Schedule Table Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3731

Exporting a Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3753

Exporting Schedule Data for Selected Objects . . . . . . . . . . 3754

Specifying the Display Properties of a Schedule . . . . . . . . . 3755

Changing General Schedule Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3756

Changing the Selection Criteria for a Schedule . . . . . . . . . 3757

Changing the Location of a Schedule Using Grips . . . . . . . 3758

Changing External Source Properties of a Schedule . . . . . . . 3758

Adding Table Breaks to a Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3759

Adding Documentation Information to a Schedule . . . . . . . 3761

Editing Table Cell Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3761

Adding Property Set Data to All Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3763

Property Data Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3764

Expanding the Scope of Scheduled Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3772

Property Set Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3772

Attaching Property Set Data to Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3773

Entering Manual Properties and Fields for Objects . . . . . . . 3774

Editing or Updating Fields in Manual Properties . . . . . . . . 3775

Converting Fields in Manual Properties to Text . . . . . . . . . 3775

Removing Property Set Data from an Object . . . . . . . . . . 3776

Attaching Property Set Data to Styles and Definitions . . . . . . 3776

Entering Manual Properties and Fields for Styles and

Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3777

Editing Style-Based Property Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3778

Editing Style-Based Property Sets Attached to Objects in External

References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3780

Removing Property Set Data from a Style or Definition . . . . . 3782

Browsing Property Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3783

Property Set Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3785

Understanding Automatic Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3788

Understanding Formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3792

Creating a Property Set Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3803

Attaching Notes or Reference Files to a Property Set

Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3804

Specifying How the Property Set Definition is Applied . . . . . 3805

Adding a Manual Property Definition to a Property Set

Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3807

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Adding a Field to a Property Set Definition . . . . . . . . . . . 3809

Adding an Automatic Property Definition to a Property Set

Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3811

Adding a Location Property Definition to a Property Set

Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3813

Adding a Classification Property Definition to a Property Set

Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3814

Adding a Material Property Definition to a Property Set

Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3817

Adding a Project Property Definition to a Property Set

Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3819

Adding an Anchor Property Definition to a Property Set

Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3820

Adding a Graphic Property Definition to a Property Set

Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3822

Sequencing Property Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3824

Hiding Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3824

Editing a Property Set Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3825

Removing All Property Sets from Objects and Styles . . . . . . 3829

Merging Property Set Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3829

List Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3830

Creating a List Definition for a Manual Property

Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3831

Editing List Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3833

Changing the List Item for an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3833

Attaching Notes or Reference Files to a List Definition . . . . . 3834

Classification Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3834

Process Overview: Including Classification Data in

Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3836

A Classification Use Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3836

Creating a Classification Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3839

Specifying the Object Types for a Classification Definition . . . 3840

Adding Classifications to a Classification Definition . . . . . . 3841

Attaching Property Set Definitions to a Classification

Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3843

Editing a Classification Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3844

Changing the Classification of an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . 3846

Attaching Notes and Files to a Classification . . . . . . . . . . 3846

Display Themes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3847

Process Overview: Creating Display Themes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3847

Creating and Editing Display Themes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3848

Creating a Display Theme Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3850

Adding a Display Theme to a Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3852

Disabling Display Themes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3854

Activating Display Themes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3854

Display Theme Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3855

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Creating a Display Theme Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3856

Troubleshooting Schedule Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3860

Question Marks in Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3860

Object not Listed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3860

Which Property Sets to Attach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3861

Changing Data in the Schedule Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3861

Object Numbers Out of Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3862

Locating an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3862

Selecting an Empty Cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3862

INVALID in a Table Cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3862

Troubleshooting Schedule Table Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3863

Add Column Button Unavailable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3863

Property Sets Unavailable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3863

Quantity Column not Totalling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3863

Matrix Column Displaying Data Instead of a Matrix

Symbol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3863

Troubleshooting Classification Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3864

Empty Classification Tab in Style Properties . . . . . . . . . . . 3864

Long Title for a Classification Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3864

Classifications Property to a Property Set Definition . . . . . . 3865

Including Classifications in a Schedule Table . . . . . . . . . . 3865

Objects Not Included in the Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3865

Classifications Selected but Object Not Included . . . . . . . . 3865

Troubleshooting Schedule Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3866

Difference Between Schedule Tags and Project Schedule

Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3866

Troubleshooting Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3866

Values on the Extended Data Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3866

Chapter 50 AEC Content and DesignCenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3869

Overview of AEC Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3869

Predefined AEC Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3870

AEC Content in the Content Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3871

AEC Content in DesignCenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3871

Adding AEC Content to Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3874

Adding Content from the Content Browser . . . . . . . . . . . 3874

Adding Content from DesignCenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3875

Adding Fixture Layouts from DesignCenter . . . . . . . . . . . 3876

Moving Content Between DesignCenter and the Content

Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3877

Creating a Tool from AEC Content in DesignCenter . . . . . . 3877

Creating Custom AEC Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3879

Using the AEC Content Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3879

Editing AEC Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3892

Modifying DesignCenter Content with the AEC Content

Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3892

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Modifying Fixture Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3892

Turning Off the Dimension Scale Override . . . . . . . . . . . 3893

Other Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3895

Chapter 51 Cameras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3897

Adjusting the Camera Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3897

Chapter 52 Converting Objects to 3D Solids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3899

Converting Objects to 3D Solids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3899

Converting Objects to 3D Solid Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3899

Chapter 53 Visual Audit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3901

Working with Visual Audit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3901

Performing a Visual Audit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3902

Chapter 54 Reference AEC Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3903

Creating an AEC Entity Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3903

Adding a Reference to an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3903

Attaching an Object to an Existing Entity Reference . . . . . . 3904

Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, and Files to an Entity

Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3905

Changing the Location of an Entity Reference . . . . . . . . . 3905

Chapter 55 Customizing and Adding New Content for Detail

Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3907

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3907

A Walkthrough of the Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3909

Component Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3911

Recipe Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3916

Jigs and JigEnts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3941

Common Jigs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3943

Recipe Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3949

Blocks and Block Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3957

Using Optimal Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3957

Naming Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3959

Base Points for Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3959

Collecting Similar Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3959

Block Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3960

Layer Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3961

Removing Unnecessary Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3961

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Chapter 56 Migrating Detail Component and Keynote Databases . . . . 3963

Migrating Your Database Modifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3963

Running the Detail Component/Keynote Database Migration

Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3966

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3969

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Workflow and User Interface

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New Features and Introduction

Welcome to AutoCAD Architecture 2011! Built on the new AutoCAD® 2011 platform, this
release is targeted at improving architectural workflows and enhancing the ease of use. Users
have now access to new functionalities around wall cleanup, renovation, improved grid
capabilities and geometric constraints.

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New Features in AutoCAD Architecture 2011

The following sections list the new and improved features in AutoCAD
Architecture 2011.

Productivity Tools for Grids and Walls

Productivity Tools offer improved functionality for creating column grids,
generating columns, and the placement of doors and windows relative to wall
points or grid lines. For more information, see Creating Enhanced Custom

Column Grids on page 2732 and Editing Enhanced Custom Column Grids on

page 2760.

With the new Column Grid tool you can define a number of aspects not
previously user-definable for a column grid.

Variable Grid Lines for Each Grid Side

You can define a different number of grid lines for each of the four grid sides:

3

For information on how to generate variable grid lines, see Creating an

Enhanced Grid with Varying Grid Lines for each side on page 2741.

Using Primary and Secondary Grid Numbering

You can use primary and secondary numbering when labelling a grid.

Inserting a grid line with secondary numbering

You can add grid lines with a secondary numbering scheme during the grid
creation, or add them later on. For more information, see Defining the

Numbering Scheme for Secondary Grid Lines on page 2748.

Selective Grid Numbering per Grid Side

You can define the display of labels for each individual grid side. You make
this decision during the grid insertion,or you can add grid labels later. For
more information, see Defining the Display of Grid Numbering when Inserting

the Grid on page 2745 and Adding Labels to an Enhanced Custom Column Grid
after Insertion on page 2763.

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Grid Properties

In addition, the Grid tool lets you control the following properties of the grid:

■ Orthogonal or radial grid shape

■ number of grid lines

■ vertical and horizontal bay size

■ inner grid radius (radial grid)

■ clockwise or counter-clockwise grid direction (radial grid)

■ multi-view block for grid label

■ grid label numbering/lettering scheme

■ prefixes for grid labels

■ grid extension

■ grid label extension

With commands of the Productivity Tools, you can place doors and windows
precisely in relation to walls and grid lines. For more information, see Adding

Doors and Windows Relative to Walls on page 1165 and Adding Doors and
Windows relative to column grids on page 1168.

Placing Doors and Windows in Relation to a Grid Line

You can add doors and windows to a wall with a specified distance to a grid
line.

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Adding multiple doors at specified distance to grid lines

Inserting Doors and Windows Centered between Grid Lines

You can insert a door or window in a wall at the center between two grid lines.

Inserting windows at the center between two grid lines

Inserting Doors and Windows Evenly Between Grid Lines

u can insert a fixed number of doors or windows at equal distances between
two grid lines.

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Inserting doors evenly spaced between grid lines

Inserting Doors and Windows Evenly on a Wall

You can insert multiple doors and windows evenly on a wall. The following
options can be set during insertion:

Fixed Number of Openings or Fixed Distance between Openings

■ Inserting a fixed number of doors or windows on a selected wall

■ Inserting a variable number of doors or windows at a specified distance

on a selected wall

Insertion an a Wall Segment or the Whole Wall

You can select if doors or windows are inserted along a wall segment (between
intersecting walls) or along the whole wall.

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Inserting multiple doors evenly on a wall segment

Inserting multiple doors evenly on the full wall

Insertion on Wall Inside Edge or Outside Edge

You can select whether the doors or windows should be distributed evenly
along the wall outside or wall inside:

Distributing doors evenly on n the wall inside

Distributing doors evenly on the wall outside

Renovation

The Renovation feature provides an efficient method of easily identifying
objects and associating them with different phases of a renovation project.
With the renovation feature you can, in one drawing, display existing,
demolished, and new construction. By working within a single drawing and
switching between renovation plan types, you avoid errors typically caused
by editing multiple drawings. For more information, see Renovation on page

565.

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When you begin the Renovation mode in a drawing, existing objects are
assigned to the existing category. If you delete objects, the objects are assigned
to the demo category. For example, moving a door creates both a new and a
demo door along with the corresponding wall openings.

Display Style and Design Rules

In the Renovation display configuration, objects display according to their
display representation. The Existing, Demolished, and New object categories
are specified within this display configuration and can be viewed in plan,
section, and elevation displays.

Interactions Between Building Objects

Building objects are automatically categorized as Existing, Demolition, or New,
and objects interact based on their category. For example, objects categorized
as Existing and New interact with each other, but objects categorized as
Demolition and New objects do not. Therefore, if you have walls that are
categorized as Demolition and walls that are categorized as New, and you
want to have them intersect, you can modify them manually.

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Wall Enhancements

A number of enhancements have been made for the Walls feature.

Intelligent Wall Cleanup

The intelligent wall cleanup feature allows you quickly and easily clean up
wall intersection conditions for 2, 3, and multiple wall segments. Select the
wall segments and apply a cleanup condition. In general, when you select a
boundary, a T-cleanup condition will result. If no boundary is selected, an
L-cleanup condition will result. For more information, see Working with

Intelligent Cleanup on page 1310.

Intelligent wall cleanup feature checks for intersecting wall justification lines
to aid in proper wall cleanup.

Use intelligent cleanup to create an L joint with 2 wall segments.

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Use intelligent cleanup to create a T joint with 2 wall segments.

Using Edit in Place for Wall Cleanup

The Edit-in-place feature ets you create wall connections as they are in real
life, and avoid the need for extra detailing of wall connections. For individual

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wall components, you can add or remove vertices, show or hide shared edges,
trim or extend components and fillet or chamfer components.

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Geometric Constraints

You can apply dimensional and geometrical constraints to AEC objects when
you are working in a 2D plan view. AEC object constraints are enhanced
versions of the AutoCAD constraints, providing you with additional
functionality in the interaction between AEC objects. In general, AEC object
constraints support initial object entity selection rather than point selection.
For more information, see AEC Object Constraints on page 1134.

The following AEC objects support constraints:

■ Walls

■ Column Grids

■ Columns

■ Beams

■ Curtain Walls

■ Mass Elements

■ Multi-view blocks

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Examples of the use of constraints for AEC objects include constraining exterior
walls to a column grid using Fix and Horizontal constraints, aligning the
centerline of a curtain wall with a column grid using the Align constraint,
and anchoring 2 column grids together with the Coincident constraint.

When you select one of the AEC objects that support constraints, the
Parametric panel on the ribbon displays its available constraints.

Parametric panel

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A Quick Start for Transitioning from AutoCAD to AutoCAD Architecture

If you have previously accomplished your architectural tasks with AutoCAD
and want to transition to AutoCAD Architecture, you will find that using tools
specifically designed for architects provides additional productivity and benefits
over the AutoCAD drafting methods you used before.

The help system is designed to simplify the transition from AutoCAD to
AutoCAD Architecture. These help components will assist new users with
previous AutoCAD experience to easily segue into working with AutoCAD
Architecture:

■ User Interface Overview An interactive method for exploring the AutoCAD

Architecture user interface.
Available from the Welcome screen and the Help drop-down menu.

■ Where is My Command? A tool that lists commands by their previous

menu location in AutoCAD Architecture and displays their current location
on the ribbon.
Available from the Help drop-down menu.

■ Getting Started Videos Short movies about frequently used tasks in

AutoCAD Architecture.
Available from the Welcome screen and the Learning Resources page.

■ Learning Resources A page with links to resources for different levels of

expertise.
Available from the Welcome screen and the Help drop-down menu.

■ New Features Workshop An overview of the new features in AutoCAD

Architecture.
Available from the Welcome screen, Help drop-down menu, and the main
Help page.

■ User Interface Tour A short, introductory video about the AutoCAD

Architecture user interface.
Available from http://www.autodesk.com/autocadarchitecture-uivideo.

The Welcome screen provides centralized access to some of these components
and displays when you open the application.

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Welcome Screen

This overview of tasks and how to accomplish them in AutoCAD Architecture
can help you get an easy start. For additional information about the task, open
the Help topic or watch one of the Getting Started videos.

NOTE The software locations for tools, palettes, and catalogs listed below are the
default locations for a standard US install. Customized installations, as well as
localized versions may vary in the tools they supply and the structure of the tool
palettes.

How
do
I…

with
Auto­CAD
tools

Auto­CAD
Ar­chi­tec­ture
tools

Work
with
Con­cep­tual
Mass­ing?

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More InformationRibbon Locationwith

How
do
I…

Mass­ing
Stud­ies?

Cre­ate a
Space
Lay­out
and
Colored
Plans?

with
Auto­CAD
tools

SolidsDesign

Auto­CAD
Ar­chi­tec­ture
tools

Mass

Home tab ➤ Build pan-

Ele-

el ➤ Box drop-down

ments
and
Mass
Groups

More InformationRibbon Locationwith

■ Online Help: Mass Elements

and Mass Groups on page 989

line
and
Hatch

SpacesPoly-

Home tab ➤ Build pan-

el ➤ Space drop-down

■ Online Help: Space Types on
page 2881

Cre­ate
Space
Plans?

A Quick Start for Transitioning from AutoCAD to AutoCAD Architecture | 17

How
do
I…

Cre­ate
Color
Fill
Plans?

Cre­ate
Floor
Plans?

with
Auto­CAD
tools

Hatch­ing
and
Poly­lines

Auto­CAD
Ar­chi­tec­ture
tools

Dis-

View tab ➤ Appearance

play

panel ➤ ➤ Themes

Themes

drop-down

and
Spaces

More InformationRibbon Locationwith

■ Online Help: Process Over-

view: Creating Display
Themes on page 3847

work
or
Mul­tilines

or
Dy­nam­ic
Blocks

Blocks
or
Dy­nam­ic
Blocks

WallsLine-

Home tab ➤ Build pan-

el ➤ Wall drop-down ➤ Wall

DoorsBlocks

Home tab ➤ Build pan-

el ➤ Door drop-

down ➤ Door

Win-

Home tab ➤ Build pan-

dows

el ➤ Window

Draw
Walls?

Draw
Doors?

Draw
Win­dows?

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■ Online Help: Walls on page
1145

■ Online Help: Doors on page
1855

■ Online Help: Windows on
page 1941

How
do
I…

with
Auto­CAD
tools

Auto-

More InformationRibbon Locationwith

CAD
Ar­chi­tec­ture
tools

Draw
Stairs?

Draw
Rail­ings?

Draw
Cur­tain
Walls?

Add
Fur­niture
and
Fix­tures?

Place
Fur­niture,

tures,
and
Equip­ment?

work

Line­work

Line­work

Blocks
or
Dy­nam-Fix­ic
Blocks

StairsLine-

Home tab ➤ Build pan-

el ➤ Stair drop-down ➤ Stair

Rail-

Home tab ➤ Build pan-

ings

el ➤ Stair drop-

down ➤ Railing

Cur-

Home tab ➤ Build pan-

tain

el ➤ Wall drop-

Walls

down ➤ Curtain Wall

Multi-

Insert tab ➤ Block pan-

View

el ➤ Multi-View Block

Blocks

■ Online Help: Stairs on page
2073

■ Online Help: Railings on page
2279

■ Online Help: Curtain Walls on
page 1401

■ Online Help: Multi-View

Blocks on page 2855

Cre­ate
An­nota­tion

A Quick Start for Transitioning from AutoCAD to AutoCAD Architecture | 19

How
do
I…

and
Schedul­ing?

Di­men­sion
Draw­ings?

Sched­ule
Tags?

with
Auto­CAD
tools

Di­men­sions

BlocksAdd

Auto­CAD
Ar­chi­tec­ture
tools

AEC

Annotate tab ➤ Dimensions

Di-

panel ➤ AEC Dimension

men-

drop-down

sions

Tag

Annotate tab ➤ Scheduling

Tools

panel

More InformationRibbon Locationwith

■ Online Help: AEC Dimensions
on page 3349

■ Online Help: Adding Tags

Using Schedule Tag Tools on

page 3718

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How
do
I…

tract
Sched­ules
from
Designs?

Modi­fy
Block
Prop­erties
for
Schedul­ing
Data?

with
Auto­CAD
tools

TablesEx-

At­trib­utes

Auto­CAD
Ar­chi­tec­ture
tools

Sched-

Annotate tab ➤ Scheduling

ules

panel

Prop-

Schedule Table tab ➤ Gener-

erty

al panel ➤ Edit Style drop-

Set

down ➤ Property Set Defini-

Defin-

tions

i­tions

More InformationRibbon Locationwith

■ Online Help: Managing

Schedule Tables on page 3728

■ Online Help: Property Set

Definitions on page 3785

Cal-

XclipCre­ate
En­larged
Plans?

Annotate tab ➤ Callouts

louts

panel ➤ ➤ Detail

and

Boundary drop-down

Pro­ject
Nav­ig­at­or

■ Online Help: Working with

Callouts on page 3649

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How
do
I…

Ex­tract
Build­ing
Sec­tions?

Ex­tract
Eleva­tions?

with
Auto­CAD
tools

Line­work

Line­work

Auto­CAD
Ar­chi­tec­ture
tools

Sec-

Annotate tab ➤ Callouts

tions

panel ➤ Section drop-down

El-

Annotate tab ➤ Callouts

eva-

panel ➤ Elevation drop-

tions

down

More InformationRibbon Locationwith

■ Online Help: Placing Section

Callouts on page 3671

■ Online Help: Placing Eleva-

tion Callouts on page 3679

Re-

Mark
up
draw­ing
revi­sions?

Add
De­tails
and
Key­notes?

Cre­ate
De­tails?

RE­VCLOUD
com­mand

Line­work

Home tab ➤ Annotation

vi-

panel ➤ Revision drop-

sion

down ➤ Revision

Clouds

De-

Home tab ➤ Details pan-

tail

el ➤ Detail Components

Com-

22 | Chapter 1 New Features and Introduction

■ Online Help: AEC Content in

the Content Browser on page

3871

■ Online Help: Detail Compon-

ents on page 3489

How
do
I…

An­not­ate
De­tails?

Work
in a
Pro­ject?

Cre­ate
Present­ation
Graph­ics?

with
Auto­CAD
tools

Lead­ers

Visu­al
Styles

Auto­CAD
Ar­chi­tec­ture
tools

pon­ents

Keynot-

Home tab ➤ Annotation

ing

panel ➤ Keynote drop-down

Visu-

Floating View panel ➤ Visu-

al

al Styles

Styles

More InformationRibbon Locationwith

■ Online Help: Keynoting Tools
on page 3570

■ Online Help: “Use a Visual
Style to Display Your Model”
in the AutoCAD Help

Con-

Find
and
Man­age
Con­tent?

Win­dows
Ex­plorer
and
Design­Cen­ter

®

Home tab ➤ Build pan-

tent

el ➤ Tools drop-

Browser

down ➤ Content Browser

■ Online Help: Content

Browser Overview on page

137

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How
do
I…

with
Auto­CAD
tools

Auto­CAD
Ar­chi­tec­ture
tools

Lay-

Man­age
Lay­ers?

Man­age
Pro­ject ig­Draw­ings?

Lay­er
Prop­er­ties
Man­ager

Sheet
Set

ager

er
Man­ager,
Lay­er
Key
Styles,
Lay­er
Stand­ards

Pro­ject
Nav-Man-

at­or

Home tab ➤ Layers pan-

el ➤ Layer Properties

Quick Access Toolbar ➤

More InformationRibbon Locationwith

■ Online Help: Managing

Drawing Layers on page 706

■ Online Help: Working with

Layer Keys on page 745

■ Online Help: Creating and

Editing Layer Standards on

page 760

■ Online Help: A Short Over­view of Drawing Manage­ment

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If you have technical questions about the products, you should contact your
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The Workspace

2

The AutoCAD Architecture workspace is a highly customizable graphical user interface designed
to accommodate the various workflows and work styles of architectural professionals. The
topics in this section provide an overview of the available workspace components and describe
how to access and configure them to meet your needs. For detailed instructions on using
workspace components to create and edit architectural objects, refer to the relevant
object-specific topics in Help (Walls, Doors, Windows, and so on).

Changes to the Workspace

The workspace has been redesigned to make it easier and faster for you to find
and use the tools and commands you need for the task at hand. This new user
interface is described in detail in the following sections, but here are the
highlights:

The Ribbon

Similarly to Microsoft Office, AutoCAD Architecture 2011 now uses the ribbon
as the central access point for commands. The ribbon contains a number of
tabs on which commands are grouped according to conceptual task types or
selected objects.

The ribbon replaces the menu bar and the toolbars as the primary command
access point.

27

The Application Menu

The application menu contains basic commands pertaining to the drawing
as a whole, such as Open, Save, Print, and Export. Like the menu browser it

replaces, the application menu is accessed by clicking in the upper-left
corner of the workspace.

Workspaces

AutoCAD Architecture is equipped with one single default workspace
(Architecture). The menus and commands associated with the previously
provided workspaces (Design, Document, Detailing, and Visualization) can
now be accessed from the tabs of the ribbon.

NOTE The tool palette groups associated with the previous default workspaces
are still available from the context menu of the tool palettes set.

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Drawing Status Bar Menu

The drawing status bar menu has been removed from AutoCAD Architecture

2011. Commands formerly found there can now be accessed from the
application menu.

Commands on the old menu

Help Access

With the removal of the menu bars, the commands to access Help features
have been moved into the InfoCenter at the top right of the application
window. Here, you can find the online resources of InfoCenter and the Help
menu, which lets you access Help, Tutorials, and other interactive resources.

Toolbars

Toolbars have been removed from AutoCAD Architecture. Commands formerly
found on toolbars can now be accessed from the ribbon.

Autodesk Seek

You can use Autodesk Seek to find product design information. Many content
providers, both corporate partners and individual contributors, publish to
Autodesk Seek. Content includes 3D models, 2D drawings, specifications,
brochures, and other descriptions of products or components.

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Import design content into AutoCAD Architecture

You can also share your own content with others using Autodesk Seek. Upload
drawings or blocks to Autodesk Seek to give your partners and customers ready
access to your content.

For more information, see “Use Autodesk Seek to Add and Share Drawings”
in the AutoCAD Help.

The Workspace Concept

In AutoCAD Architecture, a workspace is the basic user interface that includes
those controls, commands, and palettes you need for your architectural process.
When you first start AutoCAD Architecture, the default Architecture workspace
is displayed.

You can reconfigure the workspace according to your preferences as you work.
You can move or hide various components as needed, display additional
ribbon controls, or add new tools and tool palettes. If desired, you can save
your customizations as a new workspace that you can access for later drawing
sessions. You can also switch from one workspace to another at any time. For
more information, see “Create Task-Based Workspaces” in the AutoCAD Help.

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Default configuration of the Architecture workspace

Workspace Components

The workspace consists of a drawing window with ribbon, tool palettes, and
other controls that you use to set up an architectural project, create your
design, and generate construction documents.

In the following sections, each component of the workspace is described in
detail. Components can be turned off and on for different workspaces,
depending on your requirements.

For an interactive guide to the user interface, click the Help button in the
InfoCenter on the top right of the application window, and click User Interface
Overview.

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The Ribbon

The ribbon is the central location for accessing commands in AutoCAD
Architecture. The ribbon is organized into tabs that reflect common tasks in
the drawing process. There are 2 types of tabs:

■ Static tabs are available regardless of which objects are selected in the

■ Contextual tabs display depending on the object selected in the drawing

drawing area. The commands on these tabs were previously located on the
menus and toolbars.

Static Home tab

area. When you select a door, a contextual tab for doors is displayed. The
commands on the contextual tabs reflect the commands on the context
menu of an object.

Contextual tab for door objects

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Displaying the Ribbon

To display the ribbon if it is not displayed in your workspace, or has been
closed, enter ribbon on the command line.

You can use the button at the right of the tab names to modify the
appearance of the ribbon as follows:

■ To display only the panel titles of the ribbon tabs, click (Minimize to

Panel Titles) at the top right of the ribbon.

■ To display only the tab names as titles, click again (Minimize to Tabs).

■ To redisplay the full ribbon, click a third time (Show Full Ribbon).

Using the Ribbon

To start a command from the ribbon

1 If the ribbon is not displayed by default, enter ribbon on the command

line.

2 Click the desired tab.

3 Move the cursor over the commands on the tab as needed to view tooltips

describing the commands.

4 Click a command.

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Some ribbon commands are grouped under a drop-down menu. You can
access them by clicking the arrow next to the command.

Some panels have an expansion arrow to indicate that the panel can
be expanded. The expanded part typically contains commands that are
less frequently used.

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5 The expanded panel is displayed when you click the arrow . To pin

the expanded part of the panel onscreen, click .

To tear off a panel from a static ribbon tab

6 If you want a panel from a static tab to remain in your workspace when

you switch to another tab, you can tear the panel off its tab and use it as
a floating palette. To do so, move the cursor over the title bar of the panel,
and then drag the panel off the ribbon and into the drawing area.

To return a floating panel to the ribbon

7 Move the cursor over the floating panel, and click Return Panels to

Ribbon.

To hide and display tabs and panels

8 To hide tabs and panels or display a particular tab or panel, right-click

anywhere on the ribbon and click Tabs or Panels (Show Tabs or Show
Panels if you right-click on an empty area of the ribbon), and click the
tab or panel name to deselect or select it.

A check mark displays beside the tab or panel name if it is selected.

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Locating Commands in the Workspace

The ribbon is intuitive and task-related, and the transition from menus and
toolbars to the new user interface will in most cases be quick and easy.
However, it is a new design, and the following tips might help you make a
more seamless transition.

Where is My Command? Tool

The Where is My Command? tool is a help file that lists commands by their
previous menu location and displays their current location on the ribbon.

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You can access the Where is My Command? tool from the Help menu ➤ Where
is My Command, or from the landing page of the online Help.

Searching the Home Tab

The Home tab contains the most frequently used commands within the
software. Basic object and drawing tools can be found here, as well as frequently
used utilities like modification tools, layers and basic annotation. Use the
Home tab as your starting point in a new drawing.

Finding Commands with the Application Menu

The application menu has a Search mode, where you can enter a command
name or part of it, and see a list of locations in the user interface where the
command can be accessed. For more information, see Using the Application

Menu to Locate Commands on page 45.

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Searching by Context

Commands that refer to a selected object can be found on the contextual tab
of that object.

Door contextual tab

The command layout of the contextual tab of an object is in most cases based
on the structure of commands on the context menu of the object.

Door context menu

For example, on the context menu of a door you can find the Add Selected
command. On the contextual Door tab, you can find the Add Selected
command on the General panel.

Finding More Information about the Ribbon

Use the following resources to find out more about the ribbon.

Click Help menu ➤ Learning Resources, and choose from these items:

■ User Interface Overview (interactive)

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■ Tutorials

To access the Where is My Command? tool, click Help menu ➤ Where is My
Command?

The Static Ribbon Tabs

The workspace comprises a set of static tabs that are optimized for architectural
tasks. The default Architecture workspace for the US version of AutoCAD
Architecture 2011 includes the following static tabs on the ribbon:

The Home Tab

The Home tab contains the most frequently used commands within the
software. Basic object and drawing tools can be found here, as well as frequently
used utilities like modification tools, layers, and basic annotation.

■ Build. Contains the basic commands for adding the most commonly used

objects, like walls, doors, and mass elements, as well as commands for
opening the Tool palettes on page 78, The Properties Palette on page 115,
and the Content Browser on page 137.

■ Draw. Contains common linework tools, like lines, polylines, and

rectangles, as well as hatch and boundary tools and AEC Polygons on page

1811.

■ Modify. Contains commands for manipulating objects and linework in a

drawing. In addition to standard commands like Move, Rotate, Erase,
Offset, Mirror, Scale, Array, Explode, Join, there is also a command for

converting AEC objects to mass elements on page 1026 and converting mass
elements to 3D Solids on page 1025.

■ Layers. Contains commands that you need to work with layers. You can

open the Layer Manager on page 706 and the Layer States Manager on page
735 from here.

■ Annotation. Contains basic commands for inserting text, leaders, and

dimensions. For a larger selection of annotation commands, see the

Annotate tab on page 41.

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■ Inquiry. Contains commands for measuring distance and areas, and the

AutoCAD list command. Furthermore, you can find commands for

evaluating architectural spaces on page 3140.

■ Section and Elevation. Contains commands for generating sections on

page 3213 and elevations on page 3283 of your plan or model. To create sections
and elevations with Callouts on page 3649, see the Callouts panel on the

Annotate tab on page 41.

■ Details. Accesses Detail Component Manager on page 3511 from which you

can insert detail components directly into drawings or onto tool palettes.

Floating View Panel

The floating View panel offers access to the commands for views, visual styles,
and the Zoom and Pan tools. This panel is not docked to the ribbon by default,
and you can access it independently of the current ribbon tab. You can dock
the floating View panel to the Home tab, if desired.

The Insert Tab

The Insert tab lets you work with references, multi-view blocks, blocks,
attributes, and content from external sources like Content Browser and
Autodesk Seek.

■ Reference. Contains commands for working with external references (xrefs),

DWF/DWFx files, DGN underlays, and raster images.

■ Block. Contains commands for inserting and editing blocks and multi-view

blocks on page 2869.

■ Attributes. Contains commands for creating and editing attributes.

■ Import. Contains commands for importing WMF, ACIS, 3D Studio Max,

DGN, and LandXML files.

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■ Content. Contains commands for inserting content from Content Browser

on page 137, from DesignCenter, or from Autodesk Inventor into your
drawing.

■ Seek. Lets you search online for prefabricated design content. For more

information about Seek, see “Use Autodesk Seek to Share Drawings” in the
AutoCAD Help.

The Annotate Tab

The Annotate tab contains commands that help you to mark up your drawing
files.

■ Tools. Accesses the Document tool palettes set.

■ Text. Contains all commands for text and text styles and accesses the Fields

editor.

■ Dimensions. Contains commands for inserting and editing both AEC on

page 3349 and AutoCAD dimensions.

■ Scheduling. Contains commands for inserting schedule tables on page 3709

for basic objects, creating and inserting schedule tags on page 3716, and
running a space evaluation on page 3140. Additionally, you can create

schedule table styles on page 3731, and renumber property set data on page

3727.

■ Callouts. Contains commands for placing title marks on page 3664, sections

on page 3671, elevations on page 3679, and detail views on page 3665.

■ Keynoting. Contains commands for adding sheet and reference keynotes

on page 3570, keynote legends on page 3579, opening the keynote editor on
page 3593, and selecting a keynote database on page 3596.

■ Markup. Accesses commands for marking up a drawing for review. You

can add revision clouds on page 3622, mask blocks on page 2831, wipeouts,
open the Markup Set Manager, and load a markup DWF.

■ Annotation Scaling. Commands here let you add the current scale to

objects, display and edit the scale list, and add and delete scales for
annotative objects.

The Ribbon | 41

The Render Tab

The Render tab contains all commands you need to work with rendering,
materials, lights, cameras, and animations.

■ Render. Contains commands for rendering a model or a region of it,

defining render settings, generating a render output file, and opening the
Advanced Render settings palette.

■ Materials. Here, you can open the Materials palette, activate and deactivate

materials and textures, and set the material mapping.

■ Sun and Location. Here you can set parameters for natural sunlight.

■ Lights. Contains commands for setting spotlights and shadows, selecting

international lighting units, and enabling photometric lighting.

■ Camera. Contains commands for creating and adjusting camera views.

■ Animations. Contains commands for creating a WMV animation, as well

as a model walk-through and fly-through.

The View Tab

The View tab is the central location for defining and changing views and
navigating the drawing.

NOTE The View tab contains a number of commands also found on the application
status bar.

■ Navigate. Contains the ViewCube on page 75 and SteeringWheels on page

76, as well as the Pan, Zoom, and Orbit commands.

■ Appearance. Here, you can select predefined views, create new views, open

View Manager, select a visual style, open the Visual Styles Manager, and
define Walk and Fly settings. You can access predefined display themes

42 | Chapter 2 The Workspace

on page 3847. You can also adjust clip planes and access the Regenerate
commands.

■ Coordinates. Contains commands relevant to the World Coordinate System

(WCS) or User Coordinate System (UCS).

■ Viewports. Here you can switch between different viewport configurations,

create new viewports, and clip and join viewports.

■ Face Effects. Contains commands for defining object settings, including

shading, color, face lighting, and x-ray.

■ Edge Effects. Contains command for defining edge settings, including

facet edges, isolines, edge overhang, jitter, and silhouette. You can also
define the color of obscured edges and edge intersections here.

■ Windows. Contains most of the commands that were on the Window

menu in previous versions. Here you can switch between open drawings,
arrange open windows onscreen, lock the workspace windows, display and
hide the drawing window status bar on page 52, turn items on the drawing
window status bar on an off, and display the text window.

The Manage Tab

On the Manage tab, you can find features for advanced users and CAD
managers.

■ Action Recorder. Contains commands for recording and playing action

macros.

■ CAD Standards. Contains commands for configuring AutoCAD standards,

check your drawing for standards violations, and start Layer Translator.

■ Project Standards. Contains commands associated with project standards

on page 585 for an AEC project. You can configure project standards,
synchronize the project with its standards, synchronize standards with
each other, and audit projects and drawings.

■ Style and Display. Accesses the Style Manager on page 856, the Display

Manager on page 777, the AEC Dimension Style Wizard on page 3416, the

The Ribbon | 43

structural member catalog on page 2505, and the structural member wizard

on page 2510. You can also define and insert profiles on page 2817.

■ Applications. Contains commands for loading extra applications, like ARX,

LSP, or VB applications, and running user-defined scripts and VBA macros.
Also accesses the VBA Manager and the Visual Basic and Visual Lisp editors
here.

■ Customization. Accesses the User Interface Editor (CUI) and the Tool

palettes on page 78.

The Application Menu

The application menu contains commands that are relevant for the drawing
as a whole.

The application menu contains commands for the following file operations:

■ Create new drawings and projects

■ Open drawing files, project files, DGN files, and IFC files

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