Autodesk 235B1-05A761-1301 User Guide - Page 618

Review the steps View more information NOTE The software includes several tools that facilitate the process of creating schematic symbol styles and device styles. These tools are especially useful for creating a large number of styles at once. For more information, see Customizing Device Content on page 618 and Customizing Schematic Symbol Content on page 630. Add the new style-based content to one or more categories, as ----- See Categorizing Style-Based Content on page appropriate. 617. Save and close the library drawing. ----- Creating a Style-Based Content Library When you create a style using Style Manager, the style is saved only in the current drawing. If your style-based content needs to be available for use in multiple drawings on a regular basis, create the style in a new or existing drawing that you can use as a library for permanent storage. For example, if you want to have a library of symbols to use throughout a series of drawings for project ABC, open a new drawing called Project ABC Ortho Iso.dwg and create all of the styles in that drawing. The Project ABC Ortho Iso.dwg file acts as your style-based content library. Naming the drawing according to whether it contains symbols with orthographic and isometric views, or symbols with only orthographic views, helps users during symbol selection. As you draw a building system, you can access the style-based content in a library if the library drawing is located in a folder specified as a default location for style-based content, or in one of its subfolders. The following folder contains a set of customizable style-based content libraries: \ProgramData\Autodesk\MEP 2010\enu\MEPContent. The libraries have unique drawing names based on the type of content they contain. NOTE Before customizing the libraries provided with the software, make a copy of the original libraries. Creating the Blocks for a Style To create a new schematic symbol, device, panel, or plumbing fitting, you must have at least one block to assign to a view of the style. NOTE You should draw objects in blocks using line, trace, hatch, or solid, and not polyline. You can use a simple 2D AutoCAD® block that is displayed the same in all view directions, such as in the view directions of an orthographic symbol. You can also use a Multi-view block (MvBlock) that has a different appearance for each view direction, such as the different views of an isometric symbol. The individual blocks you create are referred to as view blocks. 600 | Chapter 13 Customizing Style-Based Content