Autodesk 00128-051462-9310 User Guide - Page 375

Standard Content Browser Library An icon now appears on the Project Navigator Palette to launch the Content Browser. You can set a custom Content Browser library that is opened by default when Content Browser is started from the Project Navigator. With the possibility of creating tool catalogs from existing drawings, as described in "Creating a Project Standards Tool Catalog" on page 347, it is now easy to create standard tools and catalogs for a project. Synchronizing the Project During the lifecycle of a project, project standards can change. For example, the hatching associated with a wall component can change its pattern, or a property set definition can have added properties. In cases such as these, the project must be synchronized with the modified standards. You can configure the project standards so that project drawings are automatically checked against the standards when opened, and automatically updated with the new edits. You can also manually start a synchronization for a project drawing or on the complete project at any time or you can configure standards for manual synchronization regardless of the overall project synchronization settings. Process Overview: Using Standards in a Project Setting up and using standards in a project entails the following actions: Step 1: Create standard styles, display settings, and AutoCAD components in one or more standards drawings. Standards drawings can be drawing files (DWG), drawing templates (DWT), or AutoCAD standard files (DWS). Optionally, you can create different project standards files for different styles, display settings, and AutoCAD components. Step 2: If desired, create a tool catalog that uses the styles from the standards drawings for their tool definitions. Step 3: Optionally, you can create a Content Browser library that should be used throughout the project. Step 4: Associate the standards drawings with the project. Step 5: If there are multiple standards drawings for styles, define which style type should be controlled by which standards drawing. Step 6: Set up the desired synchronization behavior of the project. You can choose between different synchronization modes, depending on your project workflows. For example, you can specify that a project drawing is synchronized with the standards when it is opened, or you can specify that synchronization happens only manually. Step 7: Add standard styles and display settings to your project drawings by one of these methods: ■ Use tools from the standard palettes. ■ Use tools from the standard Content Browser library. ■ Copy styles and display settings from the standards drawings through Style Manager and Display Manager. Step 8: Synchronize project drawings with the project standards. Project drawings can be synchronized automatically on opening, or manually by the user. Step 9: Update any inconsistent objects. Using Project Standards Project standards help ensure consistency across a project. The following workflows demonstrate how to use standards in a project: ■ The user opens a project drawing, and the styles and display settings are synchronized with the associated project standards. Depending on the standard settings, the user can either be prompted to update out-of-synch objects, or they can be automatically updated by the software. ■ The CAD manager makes changes to a style in a standards drawing, applies a version to the change, and saves and closes the standards drawing. The next time a project drawing is opened it can be synchronized with the changed style, making it match the version in the standards file. ■ A user receives a project drawing from another user or a subcontractor, and performs a standards audit on it to determine if there are any not standardized styles or display settings, or if any of them are out-of-date. The user can decide whether to update out-of-date styles and display settings, or ignore them. Synchronizing the Project | 335