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Adding a Tool Package to a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Adding Tools to a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Copying and Moving Tool Palettes and Tool Packages . . . . . . 171
Copying and Moving Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Customizing a Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Deleting Tool Catalog Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Using Tool Catalog Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Linked and Unlinked Tool Catalog Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Using a Tool in the AutoCAD Architecture Workspace . . . . . . 176
Copying a Tool Palette to the AutoCAD Architecture
Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Copying a Tool Package to the AutoCAD Architecture
Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Refreshing Linked Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Refreshing Linked Tool Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Specifying Refresh Options for Linked Tool Palettes . . . . . . . 181
Working with Multiple Content Browser Windows . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Opening a Tool Catalog in a New Content Browser
Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Opening Catalog Items in a New Content Browser
Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Dragging Catalog Items Between Content Browser
Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Starting the Content Browser from a Windows Command
Prompt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Chapter 4 Creating and Saving Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
About Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Creating a Drawing from a Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Creating a Drawing Without a Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Opening Legacy Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Saving a Drawing to a Previous Release File Format . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Setting Up a Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Specifying the Drawing Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Creating Annotation Scales and Assigning them to Display
Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Specifying a Layer Standard and a Layer Key Style . . . . . . . . 198
Specifying the Default Display Representations . . . . . . . . . . 201
Specifying AEC Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Changing the AEC Editor Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Changing the AEC Content Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Specifying AEC Object Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Specifying the Display Resolution of Objects with Facets . . . . . 208
Changing the AEC Project Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Sharing Drawings with AutoCAD Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Comparing Methods of Sharing Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
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