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Sheets folders of your project to quickly add these categories. You can also add new category folders from Project
Navigator. For more information, see “
Creating a Category in the Project Navigator ” on page 212.
The various column grid constructs are referenced in the Floor Plans, Composite Model and Section View files.
Understanding the Element File Included in the Commercial Template Project
Elements are meant for typical conditions in the project and also are useful for miscellaneous project resources whose
external referencing (xref) behavior you wish to control manually (not appearing automatically in views or sheets).
Typical Toilet Room Element
This element is intended for creating toilet room layouts that will occur more than once in the project. Rather than
draw the same layout several times, or copy and paste it, only to have to redraw when changes occur, use an element
to centralize edits to a single source file. Draw the toilet stalls, counters, lavatories and other restroom items in this
element file. In most cases, it is best to not include the surrounding walls in the element and rather draw them in the
constructs directly. This makes it easier to control cleanup conditions. 0,0 in this file will be the insertion point for the
element. Place the men’s room on one side of 0,0 and the women's room on the other. To place the element in the
model, open the desired construct, such as Core or Interior, in the drawing area, and drag the toilet room element from
the Project Navigator into the opened construct drawing. Thus will create an external reference (xref) of the element
in the construct. Move, rotate, mirror and/or copy the referenced element into the required location(s) in the plan. If
the layout needs to change, open the element file, make the change and it will refresh throughout the project via the
various external references (xrefs).
The Typical Toilet Room Element is referenced into the various core constructs. Since it is referenced via attaching
rather than overlaying, it appears automatically in all files that reference the Core constructs. This element file contains
a simple rectangle on a non-plotting layer as a way to alert you to its presence in the preconfigured files. Open this
element and delete this rectangle and replace it with your actual toilet room geometry at the start of a project.
Understanding Views Included in the Template Project
While constructs are the building blocks of a building model, views are like the traditional drawings created in projects.
You will have Floor Plan, Section, Elevation, Detail and Model View files. Each will automatically reference required
constructs upon which you will overlay notes, tags, dimensions and other annotations and embellishments appropriate
to the drawing type and scale in question. A collection of starter views is included in this Template Project.
Consultant Backgrounds
This folder contains floor plan views that have been saved with the Screened display configuration active. For consultants
that use AutoCAD Architecture or AutoCAD MEP, simply save and send these files. For consultants using AutoCAD,
change the display configuration to Plan Only and then use the Export to AutoCAD command on the File menu to
save a non-AutoCAD Architecture version of the file. For more information, see “
Exporting a Drawing to AutoCAD ”
on page 120.
Detail Views
The only view in this folder simply provides a layout grid divided into a detail grid module. Draw details in this file on
the detail grid. Create a new view for details at a different scale.
Enlarged Views
This folder is for interior elevations and enlarged Plan views. Use the callout tools on the Callouts tab of the Tool
Palettes to create such views. For more information see
Callout Tools in AutoCAD Architecture .
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