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Chapter 6 Drawing Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Workflow for a Project Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Concepts of Drawing Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
The Project Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Before You Begin: External References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Before You Begin: Working in a Network Environment . . . . . . . . . 302
Project Support Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Specifying the Default Project Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Working with Design Teams Located Remotely . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Opening a Project From a Mapped Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
The Project Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Opening the Project Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Using the Project Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Setting a Project Current . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Creating a New Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Working with Project Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Moving a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Renaming a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Closing All Project Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Electronically Transmitting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Deleting a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Closing the Project Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Removing the Project Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Opening a Project from Windows Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
The Project Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Opening the Project Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
The Tabs of the Project Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Using the Project Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
The Drawing Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Displaying the Project Tool Palette Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Displaying the Project Content Browser Library . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Creating a New Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Copying a Level with Assigned Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Changing the Properties of a Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Deleting a Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Changing Levels: Interactions with the Project . . . . . . . . . . 371
Divisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Creating a New Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Changing a Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Deleting a Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Changing Divisions: Interactions with the Project . . . . . . . . 374
Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Creating a Category in the Drawing Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Creating a Category from Windows Explorer . . . . . . . . . . 379
Specifying the Location of Top-Level Categories . . . . . . . . . 381
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