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Changing the Subcategory of a Project File . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
Deleting a Category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
When To Start with Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
The Role of Constructs in the Building Project . . . . . . . . . . 387
The Content of Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
Creating a New Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Copying Constructs to Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
Converting a Drawing to a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Opening and Closing a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
Dragging Objects into a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
Referencing Elements into Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
Displaying External References of a Construct . . . . . . . . . . 402
Changing the Properties of a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
Electronically Transmitting a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
Deleting a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Converting a Construct to an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
Changing Constructs: Interactions with the Project . . . . . . . 410
Elements in the Building Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
When to Start with Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Processing Elements in the Building Project . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Creating an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Converting a Drawing to an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Opening and Closing an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Dragging Objects into an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
Changing the Properties of an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
Electronically Transmitting an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
Deleting an Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Referencing an Element into Another Element . . . . . . . . . . 426
Displaying External References Attached to an Element . . . . . 428
Converting an Element to a Construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Changing Elements: Interactions with the Project . . . . . . . . 431
Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
When to Start with Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438
Workflow to Create View Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
Creating a New View Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
Displaying External References of a View Drawing . . . . . . . . 444
Opening and Closing a View Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
Creating a Model Space View Drawing from a Callout . . . . . . 448
Changing the Properties of a View Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . 449
Regenerating the View Drawings in a Project . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Placing a View Drawing onto a Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Electronically Transmitting a View Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . 452
Deleting a View Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
Creating a Model Space View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
Placing a Model Space View onto a Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
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