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6 Select the external reference that you want to display as background, right-click, and click Edit Object
Display.
7 Click the Xref Display tab.
All display configurations from the construct drawing are listed.
8 Select Override the Display Configuration set in the Host Drawing.
9 Select a display configuration, for example “Background” or “Screened.”
10 Click OK.
The external reference is displayed with the selected display configuration.
Annotating a Building Project
A building model can contain annotation for the objects contained in it. A number of annotation features of AutoCAD
Architecture have been enhanced to work optimally with the Drawing Management feature.
The following sections summarize the enhancements of the Scheduling feature for annotating a building project.
Generating Spaces and Space Schedules
You typically annotate a project when you have finished the design phase. Before you start creating annotation for the
building objects, you might need to create spaces and space property information from your project. Spaces and space
schedule properties help you report information on the rooms of a building, such as room numbers, room finishes, or
physical information like net and gross areas, perimeters, and calculation modifiers. You can easily create spaces from
walls and other building objects. For more information, see “
Generating Associative Spaces ” on page 1587, “ Converting
Objects, Profiles, and Polylines to Non-Associative Spaces ” on page 1617, and “ Basic Schedules ” on page 2027.
Tagging a Project
Use this procedure to tag objects in a project drawing.
One of the most frequent uses of annotation in a project is tagging the individual objects. Tags can be attached to
objects in a drawing or to objects in an external reference. You can tag objects in source drawings like elements or
constructs, or you can tag them in higher-level drawings like views or plotting sheets.
Property set definitions have property definitions for project information. You can use these to create project-specific
tags that display, for example, level and division information.
For more information, see “ Project Schedule Properties ” on page 299, “ Creating a Property Set Definition with Project
Property Definitions ” on page 300, and “ Creating a Title Block for a Project ” on page 305.
1 Open the project drawing in which to add your tags.
This may not be the drawing in which the object to be tagged is located. It can also be a drawing that
references the drawing with the object.
2 Click Format menu
➤
DesignCenter.
3 In DesignCenter, click the Custom view.
4 Expand AutoCAD Architecture, and expand Imperial or Metric.
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