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project tools Project tools are tools in the project tool palettes set for the project. In order to ensure that the current
style definition is always used, project-specific tools should point directly to the styles within a standards drawing.
standards drawing location When standards drawings, catalogs, and libraries are located within the project folder,
they are treated as project-specific. For example, if the project is used as a template for a new project, all files from the
standards folder are copied to the new project, to enable changing and overwriting them in the new project. Standards
files that are located outside the project folder are not copied when creating a new project; they are only referenced
from their original location in both the existing and the new project. This would be appropriate for files containing
company standards that should not be changed from project to project.
Project Standards Overview
Standard styles and display settings for a project are specified and stored in one or more standards drawings that are
associated with the project. This allows you to organize your standards drawings in various ways. For example, you
could have one standards drawing for styles, another for display settings, and a third for AutoCAD components such
as layers, dimension styles, text styles, and linetypes. Or you could place all your wall styles in one standards drawing
and all of your property set definitions and data format styles into another.
Project standards can be accessed from a variety of AutoCAD file formats. They can be saved in one or more drawing
files (DWG), drawing templates (DWT), or AutoCAD standards drawings (DWS). Each of these file types can be associated
with a project as standards drawings.
The project can be compared to the project standards at any time during the project lifecycle, and if version discrepancies
between the standards and the project drawings are detected, be synchronized with the standards. In addition, the
standards can be updated from the project drawings if necessary.
AEC Standards
AEC standards for a project include all items from Style Manager and Display Manager. AEC standard objects are
included in the synchronization and can be updated from a project drawing.
They include these items:
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object styles (for example, wall styles, door styles, and so on)
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property set definitions
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property data formats
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schedule table styles
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classification definitions
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display theme styles
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layer key styles
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mask block definitions
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material definitions
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multi-view block definitions
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profile definitions
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display properties
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display sets
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