AutoCAD Architecture 2012

User's Guide

March 2011

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Contents

Chapter 1 New Features and Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1New Features in AutoCAD Architecture 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1A Quick Start for Transitioning from AutoCAD to AutoCAD

Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Contacting Autodesk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Sales Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Workflow and User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Chapter 2 AutoCAD Architecture Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Start a New Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Create a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Design Your Building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Annotate Your Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Publish Your Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Work on an Existing Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Add or Modify Architectural Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Add or Modify Annotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Publish the Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

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Chapter 3 The Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Changes to the Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19The Workspace Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Workspace Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

The Ribbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24The Application Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36The Quick Access Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Context Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42Tool Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Properties Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Drawing Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Application Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Project Navigator Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Finding Information in AutoCAD Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52InfoCenter Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52F1 Context Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Tooltips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Working with Objects in the Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61Adding Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Modifying Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

View and Navigation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Quick View Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65ViewCube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67SteeringWheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68ShowMotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Working with Tool Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70Opening the Tool Palettes Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73Controlling the Appearance of the Tool Palettes Set . . . . . . . . 73Specifying Different Tool Palettes for the Tool Palettes Set . . . . . 75Creating a New Tool Palettes Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76Creating a New Tool Palettes Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Creating a New Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78Defining the Appearance of Tool Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79Adding Text and Separator Lines to Tool Palettes . . . . . . . . . 81Working with Tool Palettes from a Central Location . . . . . . . . 82

Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Creating an Object with a Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87Changing the Tool Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89Changing a Tool Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90Changing a Tool Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92Creating a Tool from an Object in the Drawing . . . . . . . . . . 92Copying a Tool from a Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93Creating a Tool from the Style Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94Creating a Tool from AEC Content in DesignCenter . . . . . . . . 95Using Command Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

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Working with Tools from a Central Location . . . . . . . . . . . 101Applying the Properties of a Tool to an Existing Object . . . . . 105Re-Importing Styles for a Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Deleting a Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

The Properties Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107Opening the Properties Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108Setting the Appearance of the Properties Palette . . . . . . . . . 108The Design Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110The Display Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112The Extended Data Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113Worksheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Direct Editing with Grips and Dynamic Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . 115Grip Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117Grip Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118Using the CTRL Key with Grips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Trigger Grips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Dynamic Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120Grip Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123Temporary Grip Coordinate Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Aligning the UCS to an Object Face . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124Matching Object Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124Styles and Support Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126Integration of AutoCAD Architecture and AutoCAD . . . . . . . . . . 127

Chapter 4 Content Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129Content Browser Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129Exploring the Content Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Viewing a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132Using the Items in a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Managing Your Catalog Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136Creating a New Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137Creating a Tool Catalog from Content Drawings . . . . . . . . . 138Adding Tools from Content Drawings to a Tool Catalog . . . . . 141Adding an Existing Tool Catalog to Your Catalog Library . . . . 144Creating a Catalog Install File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Publishing Tool Catalogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146Adding a Website to Your Catalog Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148Editing Tool Catalog Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150Creating Catalog Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152Sorting Catalogs in the Library View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Filtering Catalogs in the Library View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Removing a Tool Catalog or Website Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Opening a Different Catalog Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Renaming a Catalog Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155Searching for Items in a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Performing a Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

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Adding Content to a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157Defining Categories in a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160Adding a Tool Palette to a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160Adding a Tool Package to a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161Adding Tools to a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162Copying and Moving Tool Palettes and Tool Packages . . . . . . 163Copying and Moving Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164Customizing a Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166Deleting Tool Catalog Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Using Tool Catalog Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167Linked and Unlinked Tool Catalog Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167Using a Tool in the AutoCAD Architecture Workspace . . . . . . 168Copying a Tool Palette to the AutoCAD Architecture

Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170Copying a Tool Package to the AutoCAD Architecture

Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171Refreshing Linked Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172Refreshing Linked Tool Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173Specifying Refresh Options for Linked Tool Palettes . . . . . . . 173

Working with Multiple Content Browser Windows . . . . . . . . . . . 173Opening a Tool Catalog in a New Content Browser

Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174Opening Catalog Items in a New Content Browser

Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174Dragging Catalog Items Between Content Browser

Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175Starting the Content Browser from a Windows Command

Prompt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Chapter 5 Creating and Saving Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179About Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179Creating a Drawing from a Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180Creating a Drawing Without a Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181Opening Legacy Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182Saving a Drawing to a Previous Release File Format . . . . . . . . . . . 183Setting Up a Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Specifying the Drawing Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184Creating Annotation Scales and Assigning them to Display

Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187Specifying a Layer Standard and a Layer Key Style . . . . . . . . 190Specifying the Default Display Representations . . . . . . . . . . 193Specifying the Units for HVAC Components . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Specifying AEC Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196Changing the AEC Editor Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197Changing the AEC Content Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201Specifying AEC Object Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

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Specifying the Display Resolution of Objects with Facets . . . . . 202Changing the AEC Project Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Sharing Drawings with AutoCAD Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205Comparing Methods of Sharing Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . 207Generating Proxy Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207Exporting a Drawing to AutoCAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208Exporting a Drawing to a DXF File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Chapter 6 Interoperability with Other Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 213Importing and Exporting IFC Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

General Information for Exporting Drawing Files to IFC . . . . . 214How IFC Files Are Imported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Importing Building Components from Autodesk Inventor . . . . . . . 255Importing a Building Component into AutoCAD

Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257Importing LandXML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Schema Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259Supported Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260File Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263Importing LandXML Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263Selecting Layer Keys for LandXML Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Publishing Drawing Files to Autodesk MapGuide . . . . . . . . . . . 268Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268Published Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268Generating a MWX File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269An Overview of the Published Data Structure . . . . . . . . . . . 270An Overview of the Database Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271Publishing Data to Autodesk MapGuide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273Exporting Property Set Data to an MDB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Publishing Drawings to DWF and DWFx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276Workflow for Publishing Drawings to DWF or DWFx . . . . . . 277

Publishing Drawings to PDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294Publishing to PDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294Exporting Property Set Data to a PDF File . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298Publishing Property Set Data from External References . . . . . . 299Publishing a PDF File with Automatic Property Set Data . . . . . 300Publishing a PDF with All Property Set Data . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Chapter 7 Drawing Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303Workflow for a Project Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303Concepts of Drawing Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

The Project Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312Before You Begin: External References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314Before You Begin: Working in a Network Environment . . . . . . . . . 316Project Support Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

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Specifying the Default Project Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318Working with Design Teams Located Remotely . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Opening a Project From a Mapped Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321The Project Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Opening the Project Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322Using the Project Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322Setting a Project Current . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327Creating a New Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328Working with Project Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333Moving a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348Renaming a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349Closing All Project Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350Electronically Transmitting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352Deleting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357Closing the Project Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357Removing the Project Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Opening a Project from Windows Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359The Project Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Opening the Project Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360The Tabs of the Project Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361Using the Project Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367The Drawing Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Displaying the Project Tool Palette Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376Displaying the Project Content Browser Library . . . . . . . . . . . . 378Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Creating a New Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380Copying a Level with Assigned Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . 382Changing the Properties of a Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384Deleting a Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385Changing Levels: Interactions with the Project . . . . . . . . . . 386

Divisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387Creating a New Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387Changing a Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388Deleting a Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389Changing Divisions: Interactions with the Project . . . . . . . . 389

Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390Creating a Category in the Drawing Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . 393Creating a Category from Windows Explorer . . . . . . . . . . 394Specifying the Location of Top-Level Categories . . . . . . . . . 396Changing the Subcategory of a Project File . . . . . . . . . . . . 397Deleting a Category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400When To Start with Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402The Role of Constructs in the Building Project . . . . . . . . . . 402The Content of Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403Creating a New Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

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Copying Constructs to Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407Converting a Drawing to a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408Opening and Closing a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411Dragging Objects into a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412Referencing Elements into Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413Displaying External References of a Construct . . . . . . . . . . 417Changing the Properties of a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419Electronically Transmitting a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421Deleting a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422Converting a Construct to an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423Changing Constructs: Interactions with the Project . . . . . . . 425

Elements in the Building Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426When to Start with Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428Processing Elements in the Building Project . . . . . . . . . . . 429Creating an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429Converting a Drawing to an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431Opening and Closing an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435Dragging Objects into an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436Changing the Properties of an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437Electronically Transmitting an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438Deleting an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439Referencing an Element into Another Element . . . . . . . . . . 440Displaying External References Attached to an Element . . . . . 442Converting an Element to a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443Changing Elements: Interactions with the Project . . . . . . . . 445

Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446When to Start with Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452Workflow to Create View Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453Creating a New View Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453Displaying External References of a View Drawing . . . . . . . . 458Opening and Closing a View Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461Creating a Model Space View Drawing from a Callout . . . . . . 462Changing the Properties of a View Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . 463Regenerating the View Drawings in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . 465Placing a View Drawing onto a Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465Electronically Transmitting a View Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . 466Deleting a View Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467Creating a Model Space View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468Placing a Model Space View onto a Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471Changing the Properties of a Model Space View . . . . . . . . . 473Deleting Model Space Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474Synchronizing View Drawing Layers with Sheet View

Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475Changing Views: Interactions with the Project . . . . . . . . . . 480

Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481When to Start with Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

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Creating a Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484Setting the Properties of the Project Sheet Set . . . . . . . . . . . 487Creating a Sheet Subset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490Setting the Properties of a Sheet Subset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491Removing a Sheet Subset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493Importing Sheets into the Sheet Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493Importing the Current Layout as a Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494Opening and Closing a Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495Changing the Properties of a Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496Removing a Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496Deleting a Sheet Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497Creating a Sheet View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497Opening a Sheet View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498Numbering Sheet Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498Deleting a Sheet View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499Displaying External References of a Sheet Drawing . . . . . . . . 500Inserting a Sheet List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502Changing the Sheet List Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505Updating the Sheet List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505Refreshing the Sheet Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505Creating a Sheet Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506Activating a Sheet Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507Removing a Sheet Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507Electronically Transmitting Sheets and Sheet Sets . . . . . . . . 508Publishing Sheet Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510Changing Sheets: Interactions with the Project . . . . . . . . . . 511

Creating a Sheet Set Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511Creating a Sheet Set Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512Creating a Template from Existing Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . 519

Repath the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525Refreshing the Project Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527Object Display in External References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528Workflow for Annotating a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

Generating Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530Tagging in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530Property Set Data and Schedule Tables in Projects . . . . . . . . 532Workflow for Creating Title Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541Dimensioning a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

Working with Cut Planes in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548Global Cut Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550Object-Specific Cut Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559

Drawing Management Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562Command Line: Opening the Project Browser . . . . . . . . . . 562Command Line: Opening the Project Navigator . . . . . . . . . 563Command Line: Refreshing the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563Command Line: Regenerating Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

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Command Line: Selecting a New Project Environment . . . . . . 564Command Line: Closing the Project Navigator . . . . . . . . . . 564

Frequently Asked Questions about Drawing Management . . . . . . . 564Appendix 1: Template Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568

Levels and Divisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569Project File Naming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569Constructs Included in the Commercial Template Project . . . . 572The Element File Included in the Commercial Template

Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575Views Included in the Template Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575Sheets Included in the Template Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577Project Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578

Chapter 8 Renovation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579Overview of Renovation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579

Renovation Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579Demolition Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579Revision Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580Renovation Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581

Working in Renovation Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581Activating Renovation Mode for the First Time . . . . . . . . . . 582Renovation Settings for Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585Working on Your Drawings with Renovation Mode Active . . . . 589Customizing Renovation Design Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592

Chapter 9 Project Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599Project Standards Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599Project Standards Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601

AEC Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602AutoCAD Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604Standard Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604Synchronizing the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605Process Overview: Using Standards in a Project . . . . . . . . . . 605Using Project Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606Prerequisites for Working with Project Standards . . . . . . . . . 607

Setting up Standards in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607Creating a New Project with Predefined Standards . . . . . . . . 608Configuring Project Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609

Setting up Standard Tools in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622Creating a Tool Catalog for a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626Adding a Project Catalog to a Content Browser Library . . . . . 631Adding a Project Library and Tool Palette Group . . . . . . . . . 632Displaying the Project Tool Palette Group . . . . . . . . . . . . 637Building the Tool Palette Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639

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Copying the Project Tool Palettes to the Tool Palette FileLocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641

Adding the Project Profile to the Tool Palette File Location . . . 641Adding Standards to a Project Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642

Project Tool Palette Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643Adding Standard Styles from Content Browser . . . . . . . . . . 644Adding Standard Styles from Style Manager . . . . . . . . . . . 644Adding Standard Display Settings from Display Manager . . . . 646

Synchronizing a Project with the Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647Synchronization Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652Synchronizing a Project with AEC Standards . . . . . . . . . . . 654Synchronization Exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656Synchronizing a Project Drawing with AEC Standards . . . . . . 657Synchronizing Selected Styles and Display Settings with AEC

Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659Generating a Synchronization Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665Synchronizing a Project with AutoCAD Standards . . . . . . . . 666Synchronizing a Project Drawing with AutoCAD Standards . . . 667

Auditing a Project or a Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668Showing Display Overrides in Project Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . 670Editing Project Drawings Outside the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671Creating a New Project Standards Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671Updating Project Standards Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674

Process Overview: Updating AEC Standards in a Project . . . . . 675Versioning Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675Change Types in Project Standards Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . 677Updating Standard Objects in a Project Standards Drawing . . . 679Updating Standard Objects in a Project Standards Drawing from

a Project Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682Adding Standard Objects from a Project Drawing to a Project

Standards Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684Editing the Version History of a Standard Object . . . . . . . . . 686Versioning a Project Standards Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687Purging the Version History from a Project Standards

Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688Purging the Version Information from a Project Standards

Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689Synchronizing Project Standards with Each Other . . . . . . . . 690

Editing Project Standards Drawings Outside the Project . . . . . . . . 691Scripting Project Standards Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692

Chapter 10 Drawing Compare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695Overview of Drawing Compare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695Starting a Drawing Compare Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698Reviewing the Results of a Drawing Compare Session . . . . . . . . . 704Creating a Visual Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710

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Drawing Compare Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711Frequently Asked Questions about Drawing Compare . . . . . . . . . 711

Chapter 11 Layer Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715Layer Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715Managing Drawing Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720

Opening the Layer Properties Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720Making a Layer Current . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721Creating a Layer with a Layer Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722Creating a Nonstandard Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723Renaming a Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724Deleting a Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724Changing the Layer Standard of a Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725Defining the Properties of a Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725Overriding Layer Properties in Layout Viewports . . . . . . . . . 729Identifying Viewport Layer Overrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730Removing Viewport Layer Overrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731

Working with Layer Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733Types of Layer Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735Creating a Group Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735Creating a Property Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736Creating a Layer Standards Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741Adding Layers to Layer Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742Changing the Properties of a Layer Group . . . . . . . . . . . . 743Renaming and Deleting Layer Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744Converting a Property Filter to a Group Filter . . . . . . . . . . 744

New Layer Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745Setting up the Notification for New Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . 745Identifying New Layers in the Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747Reconciling New Layers in the Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748

Working with Layer States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749Creating a Saved Layer State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750Editing a Saved Layer State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753Restoring a Layer State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755Deleting a Layer State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757Importing Layer States to the Current Drawing . . . . . . . . . . 757Exporting a Layer State from the Current Drawing . . . . . . . . 759

Working with Layer Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759Default Layer Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761Default Layer Key Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766Creating a Layer Key Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766Creating a Layer Key Style from an LY File . . . . . . . . . . . . 767Editing Layer Key Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768Attaching Notes and Files to a Layer Key Style . . . . . . . . . . 770Layer Key Overrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771

Creating and Editing Layer Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774

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Component Fields in Layer Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775Creating a Layer Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783Editing Component Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784Editing Descriptive Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785Editing Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786Editing Description Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787Purging Layer Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787Importing Layer Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788Exporting Layer Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 789

Appendix: LISP Changes for Layer Snapshots and Layer States . . . . . 789

Chapter 12 Display System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791Introduction to the Display System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791Using the Properties Palette to Change Display Properties . . . . . . . 793Display System Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801Display Representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803Display Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 808Display Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810The Display Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814

Opening the Display Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816Viewing Display Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816Viewing Display Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818Viewing Display Representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820Viewing an Object in a Display Representation . . . . . . . . . . 822Viewing the Display Representation of an Object in a Display

Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823Accessing the Default Display Properties of an Object . . . . . . 824

Creating and Editing Display Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824Process Overview: Creating a Display Configuration . . . . . . . 824Tips for Working with Display Configurations, Sets, and

Representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825Creating a Display Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826Creating a Display Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827Creating a Display Representation for an Object . . . . . . . . . 828Editing a Display Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829Assigning a Display Representation to a Display Set . . . . . . . 831Comparing Display Representations Between Display Sets . . . . 833Assigning a Display Set to a View Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . 834Assigning a Display Configuration to a Viewport . . . . . . . . . 835Specifying a Display Set as a Default Display Set . . . . . . . . . 836Specifying the Default Display Configuration . . . . . . . . . . 837Specifying the Display Configurations Used in Xref

Overlays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837Changing the Display Configuration Used in Xref

Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839Displaying Objects by Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840

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Specifying Settings for Live Sections and Materials . . . . . . . . 841Managing Display Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843

Renaming a Display Configuration or a Display Set . . . . . . . 843Renaming a Display Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843Deleting a Display Configuration or a Display Set . . . . . . . . 844Deleting a Display Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845Adding Notes and Reference Files to a Display Configuration

or a Display Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845Using Display Settings in Multiple Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . 846Purging a Display Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849Purging a Display Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850Purging a Display Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850

Working with Standard Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851Synchronizing Individual Display Settings with AEC

Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853Excluding Display Settings from Synchronization . . . . . . . . 854Updating Standard Display Settings in a Project Standards

Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855Updating Standard Display Settings in the Project Standards

Drawing from a Project Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858Adding Standard Display Settings from a Project Drawing to a

Project Standards Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860Editing the Version History of a Standard Display Setting . . . . 862Purging the Version History from a Project Standards

Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863Purging the Version Information from a Project Standards

Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863Synchronizing Project Standards with Each Other . . . . . . . . 864

Troubleshooting the Display System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865Object Not Displayed in a Viewport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865Viewport Not Updating Properly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866Objects Copied from Another Drawing Display Differently . . . 866Verifying the Existence of Objects Not Displayed in a

Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866Object Linetype Displayed Incorrectly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867

Chapter 13 Style Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869What Are Styles? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869Style Manager Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870Sorting Styles in the Style Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873Creating a Style from the Style Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874Creating a Style from an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875Creating a Tool from a Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 876Renaming a Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 877Copying Styles Between Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 877Sending Styles to Other Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879

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Purging Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 880Working with Drawings and Templates in the Style Manager . . . . . 881

Starting a New Drawing or Template in the Style Manager . . . . 882Opening a Drawing or Template in the Style Manager . . . . . . 882Dragging a Drawing into the Style Manager . . . . . . . . . . . 883Closing Drawings and Templates in the Style Manager . . . . . . 883

Chapter 14 Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885Objects That Support Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887Working with Material Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890

Using the Material Tool to Add Materials to Objects . . . . . . . 891Creating Custom Material Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893

Material Components and Display Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898Linework Material Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 899Plan Hatch Material Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8993D Body Material Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900Surface Hatch Material Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9002D Section/Elevation Linework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901Section Hatch Material Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 902Sectioned Body and Sectioned Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 902

Displaying Materials in a Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903Working with Surface Hatches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 904

Surface Hatches on Curved Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905Surface Hatches on Multiple Faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 906Surface Hatches on Extrusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907Surface Hatches on Free Form Mass Elements . . . . . . . . . . . 909

Overriding the Surface Hatch on Individual Objects . . . . . . . . . . 909Hiding a Surface Hatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 910Displaying a Hidden Surface Hatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 912Specifying the Rotation of a Surface Hatch . . . . . . . . . . . . 913Specifying the Horizontal and Vertical Offset of a Surface

Hatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914Editing Surface Hatch Overrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916

Displaying a List of Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916Displaying a Material Query . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 917Process Overview: Creating and Assigning Materials . . . . . . . . . . 917Creating and Editing Material Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919

Creating a Material Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919Defining the Layer, Color and Linetype of a Material

Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 920Specifying the Plan and Section Hatch Patterns of a Material

Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921Specifying the Surface Hatch Pattern of a Material

Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923Assigning Render Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 925

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Excluding a Material Definition from 2D SectionShrinkwrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 928

Controlling the Display of Hidden Lines by Material . . . . . . . 929Merging Material Definitions in a 2D Section/Elevation . . . . . 931Attaching Notes and Files to a Material Definition . . . . . . . . 932

Chapter 15 Content Creation Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933General Content Standards and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933

Content Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933National CAD Standard Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 935

Content Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939Template Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 940Style Library Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 942Template Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943Tool Catalogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946

Display Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947Style-Based Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949

Architectural Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949Documentation Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 973Multi-Purpose Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 981

Symbol & Tool-Based Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 993AEC Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 993Palette-Based and Miscellaneous Annotation Tool Content . . . 997

Conceptual Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1001

Chapter 16 Creating Conceptual Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003Mass Elements and Mass Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003

Using Massing Tools to Create Mass Elements . . . . . . . . . . 1005Editing Mass Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1024Mass Element Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1057Using Massing Tools to Create Mass Groups . . . . . . . . . . . 1065Using Materials for Mass Elements and Mass Groups . . . . . . 1082

Using the Model Explorer to Create Mass Models . . . . . . . . . . . 1087Displaying the Model Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1089Defining the View in the Model Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . 1090Navigating the View in the Model Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . 1091Navigating the View with the ViewCube . . . . . . . . . . . . 1091Navigating the View with SteeringWheels . . . . . . . . . . . . 1092Viewing Objects on a Nonvisible Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1093Maintaining Zoom Percentage and Position of an Object . . . . 1094Using Toolbar Commands in the Model Explorer . . . . . . . . 1094

Creating Slice Floorplates from a Conceptual Model . . . . . . . . . 1101Generating a Slice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1102

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Specifying the Slice Elevation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1104Attaching Objects to a Slice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1104Detaching Objects from a Slice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1104Converting a Slice to a Polyline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1105Changing the Location of a Slice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1105Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, or Files to a Slice . . . . . . . . . 1106

Chapter 17 Quick Slice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109Quick Slice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109

Creating a Quick Slice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109

Chapter 18 Object Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111Object Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111

Defining the View in the Object Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1115Navigating the View in the Object Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . 1117Navigating the View with the ViewCube . . . . . . . . . . . . 1118Navigating the View with SteeringWheels . . . . . . . . . . . . 1119Setting the View Direction of the Object Viewer to the Drawing

Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1120Saving a Preview Image from the Object Viewer . . . . . . . . . 1121

Chapter 19 Napkin Sketch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123Napkin Sketch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123Creating a Napkin Sketch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1125Editing a Napkin Sketch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1127

Designing with Architectural Objects . . . . . . . . . . 1129

Chapter 20 General Object Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1131The General Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1131

Selecting Similar Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1131The Object Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1132Isolating and Hiding Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1132Editing Objects in Temporary Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1135Adding Objects of the Same Type as the Selected Object . . . . 1138Editing Object Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1138Copying and Assigning an Object Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1139Dimensioning an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1139Tagging an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1140

Editing Object Components In Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1140Editing Polyline-based Components in Place . . . . . . . . . . 1142Editing Profile-based Object Components in Place . . . . . . . 1143Editing in Place: Special Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1144

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Changing the Display of Object Components in Edit-in-PlaceMode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1146

AEC Object Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1148

Chapter 21 Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1159Workflow for Adding Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161Drawing Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1163Creating Walls from Linework and 3D Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173Adding Doors and Windows to Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1177

Adding Unconstrained Doors and Windows . . . . . . . . . . . 1178Adding Doors and Windows Relative to Walls . . . . . . . . . . 1179Adding Doors and Windows relative to column grids . . . . . . 1182

Adding an Opening to a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1187Adding a Door/Window Assembly to a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1187Removing Windows, Openings, Doors, or Door/Window Assemblies

from a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1188Anchoring an Object to a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1188Detaching Objects from a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1189Editing Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1190

Using Grips to Edit Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1191Changing the Shape of a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1199Changing the Wall Justification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1207Offsetting New Walls from Existing Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . 1207Repositioning a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1209Adjusting the Position of Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1210Applying Tool Properties to an Existing Wall . . . . . . . . . . 1211Changing the Style of a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1212Changing the Location of a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1213Merging Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1214Removing Individual Merge Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1214Removing All Merged Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1215Joining Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1215Filleting Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1217Chamfering Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1220Reversing the Direction of a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1222Using AutoCAD Commands to Edit Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223Changing the Roof Line and the Floor Line of a Wall . . . . . . 1224Specifying the Materials of Individual Walls . . . . . . . . . . . 1236Changing the Display Properties of Individual Walls . . . . . . 1238Attaching Notes and Files to a Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1246

Wall Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1247Creating a Wall Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1250Troubleshooting Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1254Creating Special Conditions and Customized Wall Surfaces . . . . . . 1255

Working with Wall Sweeps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1256Working with Wall Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1268

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Working with Body Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1284Working with Interference Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1292

Wall Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296Creating a Wall Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1297Adding Property Set Data to a Wall Style . . . . . . . . . . . . 1298Specifying the Components of a Wall Style . . . . . . . . . . . 1299Specifying the Materials of a Wall Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1313Specifying the Display Properties of a Wall Style . . . . . . . . 1316Adding Classifications to a Wall Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1322Defining a Wall Style as Bounding for Associative Spaces . . . . 1322Attaching Notes and Files to a Wall Style . . . . . . . . . . . . 1323

Workflow for Cleaning Up Wall Intersections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1323Working with Intelligent Cleanup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324Using Intelligent Cleanup for L Intersections . . . . . . . . . . 1325Using Intelligent Cleanup for T Intersections . . . . . . . . . . 1328Using Intelligent Cleanup for Multiple Wall Intersections . .

1 3 3 0Wall Justification Lines and Cleanup Circles . . . . . . . . . . 1333Wall Cleanups and Priorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337Guidelines for Successful Wall Cleanup . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1339Assigning a Different Wall Cleanup Group Definition to Existing

Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1340Specifying Cleanup for Individual Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1340Overriding the Wall Cleanup Circle Radius . . . . . . . . . . . 1341Overriding Component Priorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1342Troubleshooting Wall Cleanups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1343Cleanup Group Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1351

Using Edit in Place to Clean Up Wall Intersections . . . . . . . . . . 1354Specifying a Component Cleanup Override . . . . . . . . . . . 1357Hiding the Edge of a Wall Intersection Component . . . . . . . 1357Showing the Edge of a Wall Intersection Component . . . . . . 1359Filleting a Wall Intersection Component . . . . . . . . . . . . 1361Chamfering a Wall Intersection Component . . . . . . . . . . 1362Adding a Vertex to a Wall Intersection Component . . . . . . . 1363Removing a Vertex from a Wall Intersection Component . . . . 1366Subtracting a Profile from a Wall Intersection Component . . . 1367Merging a Profile with a Wall Intersection Component . . . . . 1368Trimming a Wall Intersection Component . . . . . . . . . . . 1370Extending a Wall Intersection Component . . . . . . . . . . . 1372

Working with Wall Endcaps and Opening Endcaps . . . . . . . . . . 1373Workflow for Creating Wall and Opening Endcaps . . . . . . . 1374Using Edit in Place to Modify Wall Endcaps . . . . . . . . . . . 1375Filleting a Wall Endcap Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1385Chamfering a Wall Endcap Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1387Showing the Edge of a Wall Endcap Component . . . . . . . . 1388Hiding the Edge of a Wall Endcap Component . . . . . . . . . 1389

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Trimming a Wall Endcap Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1390Extending a Wall Endcap Component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1391Subtracting a Profile from a Wall Endcap Component . . . . . 1393Merging a Profile with a Wall Endcap Component . . . . . . . 1395Creating Wall Endcaps Using Calculate Automatically . . . . . 1396Applying Wall Endcap Styles from the Style Manager . . . . . . 1401Modifying the Geometry of a Wall Endcap Style . . . . . . . . 1403Changing the Return Offset of a Wall Endcap Style . . . . . . . 1406Attaching Notes and Files to a Wall Endcap Style . . . . . . . . 1407Creating a Wall Opening Endcap Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1407Applying a Wall Opening Endcap Style to a Wall Style . . . . . 1408Overriding a Wall Opening Endcap Style on a Wall . . . . . . . 1409

Using Ortho Close and Close with Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1409About Wall Lengths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1410About Curved Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1410Specifying Offsets for Roof Line and Floor Line Vertices . . . . . . . . 1411Specifying the Width and Edge Offset of a Wall Component . . . . . 1412

Chapter 22 Curtain Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1415Curtain Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1415Using Curtain Wall Tools To Create Curtain Walls . . . . . . . . . . 1419

Creating a Straight Curtain Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1420Creating a Curtain Wall with User-Specified Settings . . . . . . 1421Creating a Curved Curtain Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1423Creating a Curtain Wall that References a Curve . . . . . . . . 1426Converting a Layout Grid to a Curtain Wall . . . . . . . . . . 1427Creating a Curtain Wall from an Elevation Sketch . . . . . . . 1429Converting a Wall to a Curtain Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1431Converting a 3D Face to a Curtain Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1432Creating a Curtain Wall Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1433

Curtain Wall Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1436Process Overview: Creating a Curtain Wall Style . . . . . . . . 1437Tips for Working Efficiently with Curtain Wall Styles . . . . . 1438Creating Element Definitions for a Curtain Wall Style . . . . . 1439Creating a Curtain Wall Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1440Defining Divisions for Curtain Wall Grids . . . . . . . . . . . 1442Defining Infills for Curtain Wall Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1455Defining Curtain Wall Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1461Defining Curtain Wall Mullions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1468Assigning Definitions to Curtain Wall Elements . . . . . . . . 1475Assigning a Division to a Curtain Wall Grid . . . . . . . . . . 1476Assigning Infills to Curtain Wall Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1477Assigning Definitions to Curtain Wall Frames . . . . . . . . . 1489Assigning Definitions to Curtain Wall Mullions . . . . . . . . 1493Specifying the Materials of a Curtain Wall Style . . . . . . . . 1496Specifying the Display of Curtain Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1499

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Defining a Curtain Wall Style as Bounding for Associative Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 5 0 5

Attaching Notes and Files to a Curtain Wall Style . . . . . . . 1506Using Overrides in Curtain Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1507

Overriding Curtain Wall Infills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1508Overriding Curtain Wall Frames and Mullions . . . . . . . . . 1518Overriding Curtain Wall Divisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1529Removing Curtain Wall Overrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1535

Modifying Element Definitions for Curtain Wall Styles . . . . . . . . 1535Editing Curtain Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1537

Using Grips to Edit Curtain Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1538Selecting a Different Curtain Wall Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1547Applying the Properties of an Existing Curtain Wall . . . . . . 1548Changing the Dimensions of a Curtain Wall . . . . . . . . . . 1548Changing the Curtain Wall Location Properties . . . . . . . . 1549Adding an Interference Condition to a Curtain Wall . . . . . . 1550Removing an Interference Condition from a Curtain Wall . . . 1551Mitering Curtain Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1551Specifying a Miter Angle for a Curtain Wall Adjacent to Another

Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1552Specifying the Cut Plane Display of a Curtain Wall . . . . . . . 1553Specifying the Display of Other Characteristics of a Curtain

Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1554Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, or Files to a Curtain Wall . . . . 1556

Changing the Roof Line and the Floor Line of a Curtain Wall . . . . 1557Offsetting or Projecting the Roof Line of a Curtain Wall . . . . 1557Offsetting or Projecting the Floor Line of a Curtain Wall . . . . 1559Editing the Roof Line or the Floor Line of a Curtain Wall . . . . 1560Changing the Roof Line and the Floor Line . . . . . . . . . . . 1562Adding a Gable to the Roof Line of a Curtain Wall . . . . . . . 1564Adding a Step to the Roof Line or Floor Line of a Curtain

Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1566Changing Vertices in the Roof Line or Floor Line of a Curtain

Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1567Specifying Gable Settings for a Roof Line . . . . . . . . . . . . 1569Specifying Step Settings for a Roof Line or Floor Line . . . . . 1570Specifying Vertex Settings for a Roof Line or Floor Line . . . . 1571

Editing Objects Anchored in Curtain Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1573Changing the Orientation of an Object Anchored in a Curtain

Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1573Changing the Alignment of an Object Anchored in a Curtain

Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1573Changing the Offset of an Object Anchored in a Curtain

Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1574Swapping Two Objects Anchored in a Curtain Wall . . . . . . 1574Releasing an Object Anchored in a Curtain Wall . . . . . . . . 1574

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Curtain Wall Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1575Creating Curtain Wall Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1577

Creating a Curtain Wall Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1577Converting a Layout Grid to a Curtain Wall Unit . . . . . . . . 1578Creating a Curtain Wall Unit with a Custom Grid . . . . . . . 1580

Curtain Wall Unit Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1582Creating Element Definitions for a Curtain Wall Unit Style . .

1 5 8 2Creating a Curtain Wall Unit Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1583Defining Divisions for Curtain Wall Unit Grids . . . . . . . . . 1585Defining Infills for Curtain Wall Unit Cells . . . . . . . . . . . 1594Defining Curtain Wall Unit Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1599Defining Curtain Wall Unit Mullions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1606Assigning a Division to a Curtain Wall Unit Grid . . . . . . . . 1613Assigning Infills to Curtain Wall Unit Cells . . . . . . . . . . . 1614Assigning Definitions to Curtain Wall Unit Frames . . . . . . . 1623Assigning Definitions to the Mullions of a Curtain Wall Unit . .

1 6 2 7Specifying the Materials of a Curtain Wall Unit Style . . . . . . 1630Specifying the Display of Curtain Wall Units . . . . . . . . . . 1633Defining a Curtain Wall Unit Style as Bounding for Associative

Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1640Attaching Notes and Files to a Curtain Wall Unit Style . . . . . 1640

Using Overrides in Curtain Wall Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1641Overriding Curtain Wall Unit Infills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1642Overriding Curtain Wall Unit Frames and Mullions . . . . . . 1652Overriding Curtain Wall Unit Divisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1664Removing Curtain Wall Unit Overrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1670

Editing Curtain Wall Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1670Using Grips to Edit Curtain Wall Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1671Selecting a Different Curtain Wall Unit Style . . . . . . . . . . 1675Matching the Properties of an Existing Curtain Wall Unit . .

1 6 7 6Changing the Dimensions of a Curtain Wall Unit . . . . . . . 1677Specifying a Miter Angle for a Curtain Wall Unit Adjacent to

Another Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1677Changing the Location of a Freestanding Curtain Wall Unit . .

1 6 7 8Modifying the Position of Anchored Curtain Wall Units . . . . 1679Specifying the Cut Plane Display of a Curtain Wall Unit . . . . 1680Specifying the Display of Other Characteristics of a Curtain

Wall Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1682Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, or Files to a Curtain Wall

Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1684Facet Deviation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1685

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Chapter 23 Door and Window Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1687Door and Window Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1687

Using Door and Window Assembly Tools to Create Door andWindow Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1691

Creating a Door and Window Assembly Tool . . . . . . . . . . 1700Door and Window Assembly Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1703Using Overrides in Door and Window Assemblies . . . . . . . . 1779Modifying Element Definitions for Door and Window Assembly

Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1808Editing Door and Window Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1809Editing Objects Anchored in Door and Window

Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1824

Chapter 24 AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1827AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1827Using AEC Polygon Tools to Create AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . 1830Creating an AEC Polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1830Creating an AEC Polygon with User-Specified Settings . . . . . . . . 1831Creating an AEC Polygon from a Polyline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1832Creating an AEC Polygon from a Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1833Creating an AEC Polygon Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1833Editing AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1835

Using Grips to Edit AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836Changing the AEC Polygon Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845Centering AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845Subtracting AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845Merging AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846Arraying AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847Repositioning AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848Evenly Spacing AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848Trimming AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849Dividing AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849Cropping AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850Adding a Vertex to an AEC Polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1851Removing a Vertex from an AEC Polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . 1852Converting an AEC Polygon to a Polyline . . . . . . . . . . . . 1852Converting an AEC Polygon to a Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1853Changing the Rotation of an AEC Polygon . . . . . . . . . . . 1853Changing the Elevation of an AEC Polygon . . . . . . . . . . . 1854Changing the Location of an AEC Polygon . . . . . . . . . . . 1854Specifying Fill Properties for the True Color Display

Representation of an AEC Polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1855Attaching Hyperlinks, Notes, or Files to an AEC Polygon . . . . 1857

AEC Polygon Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1858Creating an AEC Polygon Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1858

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Changing the Width and Justification of the AEC PolygonEdges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1860

Masking Underlying Objects with AEC Polygons . . . . . . . . 1861Specifying the Display Properties of an AEC Polygon Style . . . 1861Setting the Colors of the True Color Display

Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1866Attaching Notes and Files to an AEC Polygon Style . . . . . . . 1867Adding Classifications to an AEC Polygon Style . . . . . . . . . 1868

Chapter 25 Doors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1871D