Autodesk 00128-051462-9310 User Guide - Page 1639

drawings. Furthermore, updating each temporary change might not be necessary or desirable. For example, if you delete a wall only to replace it with a different one in the same position, you only need the space to update after the new wall is in place, rather than once when the old wall is removed and again when the new one is inserted. Manual updates mean that the geometry of spaces and their bounding objects might be out-of-synch at a given time during the drawing session. IMPORTANT When an associative space is updated either manually or automatically, for the following settings the last-used settings in the Properties palette will be used: Filter boundary set, Maximum gap size, and Ignore holes. Before you update a space, verify that the last used settings are indeed the ones you need for the update. For example, you have generated an associative space that has Ignore holes set to No, because you want to deduct a number of columns represented by polylines from the space area. Later, you generate some other spaces that have Ignore holes set to Yes, because you do not want to deduct anything from them. When you then either make a change to the first associative space that triggers an automatic update or manually update it, it will change its Ignore holes setting from Yes to No, as this was the last-used value when generating a space in the drawing. In most cases this behavior will be undesirable, so if the last-used settings are not identical to the desired settings, generate a dummy space with the desired values before updating a space. Activating and Deactivating Automatic Updates Use this procedure to activate or deactivate the automatic update of associative spaces. When the automatic update of associative spaces has been deactivated, and an area calculation standard has been selected to calculate boundary offsets, the rules of the standard will only be applied to changed spaces when either the automatic update has been activated again or the spaces are updated manually, as described in "Manually Updating Associative Spaces" on page 1600. NOTE Automatic updating of associative spaces works only when the space and its bounding objects are in the same drawing. If you want to update a space after changing bounding objects in an external reference, you must update the space manually. IMPORTANT When you activate the automatic update of spaces, only those spaces will be updated that had no bounding objects added while the update was off. For example, if you add a dividing wall to a space while the automatic update is off, and then turn the automatic update on, the space will not be divided by the wall. You can either manually update the space, or delete and redraw the dividing wall after turning on the automatic update. 1 Click Format menu ➤ Options. 2 Click the AEC Object Settings tab. Activating and Deactivating Automatic Updates | 1599