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3 Under Space Settings, specify whether associative spaces will be updated automatically: If you want to... Then... update associative spaces automatically each select Automatically update associative spaces. time you make a change to the bounding objects update associative spaces manually clear Automatically update associative spaces. 4 Click OK. Manually Updating Associative Spaces Use this procedure to manually update an associative space to reflect changes in its bounding geometry. A manual update can be necessary in these cases: ■ The automatic update of associative spaces has been deactivated, as described in "Activating and Deactivating Automatic Updates" on page 1599, and the bounding objects of an associative space have been modified. ■ You need to update an associative space in the current drawing to reflect changes made to bounding objects in an external reference. ■ The automatic update cannot be performed due to any of the conditions described in "Troubleshooting Generating Associative Spaces" on page 1605. IMPORTANT When you manually update an associative space, 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 of this space. 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 manually update the first space, 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 your space. You can choose to either update only selected spaces, or all associative spaces in the drawing. Manually updating selected spaces 1 Select the associative space you want to update. 2 Right-click, and click Update Space Geometry ➤ Selected Spaces. 1600 | Chapter 36 Spaces