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To accommodate proprietary office standards and other project-specific keynoting schemes, you can modify the default
databases or you can create your own databases using either Microsoft
®
Access or the editing functionality provided
with the software. You can also configure keynote databases to control which ones are available for assigning to
individual projects and to specify the order in which they are searched.
Configuring Keynote Databases
AutoCAD Architecture supports multiple keynote databases, which you can assign to individual projects (see “ Setting
the Detail Component and Keynote Databases for a Project ” on page 183). When you are working within a given project,
only those databases assigned to that project are accessible through the Select Keynote dialog box.
Before a database can be assigned to a project, however, it must be on the list of available databases. Both keynote
databases provided with the software (AecKeynotes and AecKeynotes-Assemblies) are included on this list by default.
You can add databases to the list or remove them. If a particular keynote exists in multiple databases, you can specify
the order in which the databases are searched to find a keynote that has been specified for an object. (Only the key is
stored with the object style; the corresponding note must be retrieved from a database at the time of insertion.)
Adding a Keynote Database
Use this procedure to add a database to the list of available keynote databases.
1 On the Format menu, select Options.
2 In the Options dialog box, click the AEC Content tab.
3 On the AEC Content page, click the Add/Remove button for Keynote Databases.
4 In the Add/Remove Keynote Databases dialog box, click Add.
5 In the Select Component Database browser window, locate the database you want to add, and click Open.
The selected database is added to the bottom of the list in the Add/Remove Keynote Databases dialog box.
You can specify the order in which databases are searched by clicking the Move Up and Move Down buttons
to change the position of a selected database within the list. Moving a database to the top of the list makes
it the default selection for the Select Keynote dialog box.
6 Click OK twice.
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