Duncan Lithgow
2011-11-11, 09:48 AM
Hi there
I'm working on a new university hospital with lots of separate buildings with relatively complex geometry. The current setup is as follow:
- Each building is a separate model
- The buildings are collected into larger models for parts of the campus
- Sheet views are created in the submodels and shown 'by linked view' linked into the campus parts model
Our problem is that drawing standards were not set to our satisfaction in the original template so we have things we need to change in each separate model . This works fine for things that can be copied but not for things like the settings for a spot elevation - when we import the new elevation symbol we don't carry all the spot elevation setting with us, the same for dimension styles and view templates. Many of the setting of the project we import into are preserved - against our intention.
How can we solve this? How can we force the settings from one master project to come out to the other projects.
We're wondering if we should create a new empty project and purge everything we can and making it a new master file - then importing the whole project into our sub-models. We might call it a drawing-styles master project.
(Of course in future all this is solved by having the right template from the start, don't look at me like that I just came into the project last Tuesday)
We'd love some input to a good solution.
Cheers, Duncan
I'm working on a new university hospital with lots of separate buildings with relatively complex geometry. The current setup is as follow:
- Each building is a separate model
- The buildings are collected into larger models for parts of the campus
- Sheet views are created in the submodels and shown 'by linked view' linked into the campus parts model
Our problem is that drawing standards were not set to our satisfaction in the original template so we have things we need to change in each separate model . This works fine for things that can be copied but not for things like the settings for a spot elevation - when we import the new elevation symbol we don't carry all the spot elevation setting with us, the same for dimension styles and view templates. Many of the setting of the project we import into are preserved - against our intention.
How can we solve this? How can we force the settings from one master project to come out to the other projects.
We're wondering if we should create a new empty project and purge everything we can and making it a new master file - then importing the whole project into our sub-models. We might call it a drawing-styles master project.
(Of course in future all this is solved by having the right template from the start, don't look at me like that I just came into the project last Tuesday)
We'd love some input to a good solution.
Cheers, Duncan