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the standards and the project. Synchronization can be set up to run invisibly
in the background, run automatically with user prompting, or can be manually
initiated by the user.
project tool palette group A project tool palette group is associated
automatically with the project. It can be referenced from a shared location or
be copied to each user’s computer.
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.
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