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Removing the Project Context
Use this procedure to remove all project-related information from the drawing files of a project. This may be desirable
if you want to hand over the files to a contractor who does not work with the latest version of AutoCAD Architecture,
or if the project no longer exists but you do not want to delete the drawing files.
Much of the project-related information associated with a drawing file does not reside in the drawing file itself, but in
the accompanying XML file. This means that you can use all your project files at any time in a non-project-related
drawing context. However, if you want to work permanently without the project context, it is recommended that you
clean your file set of the unused project files.
Project-related information resides in the following files:
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The APJ file, which contains the general, high-level project data like name, number, project details, and project
standards.
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The XML files, each of which stores the project information for an individual drawing file.
If you delete the APJ file and the XML files, the remaining drawing files no longer have connections to a project. They
are regular AutoCAD Architecture drawing files and can be copied, edited, and deleted like any other drawing file.
The drawing files can contain standard styles and display settings, if standards have been set up for the project. When
the XML and APJ files are deleted, any standard styles and display settings are no longer synchronized in the now
standalone drawings.
NOTE Once the project context has been removed, there is no simple, one-step way to recreate it. if you have removed the
project, and want to re-build a project around the remaining drawing files, you need to build the project from scratch, and
import the drawing files into it.
To remove project-releated information
1 In Windows Explorer, navigate to the folder containing the project.
2 In the project folder, delete the APJ file. For example, if you have a project named Office Building, delete
the file named Office Building.apj.
3 Open the Elements, Constructs, Sheets, and Views folders, and delete the XML files associated with your
drawing files.
For example, if you have a drawing named “First Floor Construct.dwg” in your Constructs folder, select
and delete the file named First Floor Construct.xml.
4 Repeat the previous step for each drawing file.
NOTE If you reorganize files into a different file structure, you may have to manually reset broken external
reference paths in the drawings.
Opening a Project from Windows Explorer
You can open AutoCAD Architecture with a specific project by double-clicking the project APJ file in Windows
®
Explorer.
This will launch a new session of AutoCAD Architecture with the project specified in the project file as the current
project in the new session.
When you install AutoCAD Architecture 2008, and the APJ files extension has not previously been associated with
another application, such as an XML editor, the file association between the APJ file extension and AutoCAD Architecture
is automatically created. If you had previously associated the APJ file extension with another application, and want to
change that association to AutoCAD Architecture, use the following steps:
1 On the Windows Start menu, click Settings
➤
Control Panel.
2 Double-click Folder Options.
3 Click the File Types tab.
4 Under Registered File Types, scroll to the APJ extension, and select it.
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