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Manually merging associative spaces 1 Verify that the automatic update of associative spaces has been deactivated, as described in "Activating and Deactivating Automatic Updates" on page 1599. 2 Select the bounding object that separates the spaces you want to merge, and delete it. You now have 2 separate spaces within the same bounding geometry. 3 Select and delete the space whose properties you do not want to keep. If you have no preference, you can delete either space. The remaining space will still be the same size as it was before you deleted the bounding object. 4 Right-click the remaining space, and click Update Space Geometry ➤ Selected Spaces. 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. The space is updated to the new boundaries. 1602 | Chapter 36 Spaces