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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 iii 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 iv | Contents 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 Contents | v 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 vi | Contents 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 Contents | vii 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 viii | Contents 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 Contents | ix 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 x | Contents