“Project Settings” dialog box

The Project Settings (How) dialog box displays information about the selected project. You can change settings of this project.

Project info

Project name

Shows the name of the project.

Prepared online

You can configure the program to prepare a project for online use so that you can use an FTP server to access the project. When you select this option, Allplan sets all resources to project-specific and copies the user rights to the project.

Data compression

You can compress the data of projects prepared online. Data compression reduces the file size of these drawing files by up to 90 %, thus considerably speeding up data transfer from and to the FTP server.

Created on

Shows the date the project was created.

Free memory

Shows the amount of free hard-drive space on the computer with the selected project.

Current project size

Shows how much of the space is used by the selected project.

Assign attributes

Assign values to the project attributes.

Computer name

With Workgroup Manager: Shows the computers where the projects are saved.

Owner

With Workgroup Manager: Shows the owner of the project who can be changed by the Allplan administrator.

Authorized users

With Workgroup Manager: The Allplan administrator (sysadm) can define the users who are authorized to work on this project.

Path settings

You can specify whether the project is to access the project resources of the office standard or use project-specific project resources. When you select Project, a copy of the office standard is created in the project, or click and then select the project whose project resources you want to use.

Note: Switching the path setting of an existing project from Project to Office will delete the project-specific data in the corresponding setting. (A confirmation prompt to this effect is displayed first.) All changes made since the project was created (e.g., new line type definitions or new patterns) will be lost.

Attributes

Specify whether you want to define and save project-specific attributes or use the attributes of the office standard.

If, for example, the office standard of a project has changed, you can use to update the attributes of the project and adapt these attributes to the changed office standard without overwriting project-specific attributes that you changed or added beforehand. A dialog box tells you how many attributes will be added, changed, deleted, or renamed during the update. Click Details to list the attribute names. Click OK to confirm. The attributes will be updated when you click OK to confirm the Project Settings dialog box.

Attribute set definition

You can specify whether you want to use predefined attribute sets in projects. You can choose between None and Bimplus (see "Planning projects using standardized Bimplus attribute sets"). When you select Bimplus, Allplan automatically switches the path settings of the Attributes to Project.

Urban planning symbols

You can set the drawing symbol catalog used in the project.

CAD-TAI project assignment

You can set the path to the Allplan BCM data folder and specify the research projects (element catalogs).

For correct analyses, you must use the element catalogs when you define the materials of architectural elements.

Settings

Offset coordinates

Offsets are required above all to convert supra-regional country coordinates with high numbers into a local system centered on the WCS origin of the workspace. The offset you set is valid for the current project.

Note: During import, the offset value is subtracted; during export, it is added.

Note: If you have data with large coordinates, you can move the data and enter an offset to keep the original coordinates.

Enter the values in the current unit of length.

Project angle for rotated plan view

You can enter the angle for the Rotated Plan View. This setting applies to all viewports in the current project (as opposed to Rotated plan view, which applies to the current viewport only).

Click Match angle from most recent viewport to take the angle from the most recent viewport.

Input, output currency

Specify the currency for the project. Reports that include prices use the currency selected. If you work with Workgroup Manager, the currency can only be selected or changed by the system administrator, the project owner, or authorized users.

• If you work with a single currency (for example, with CHF in Switzerland), select the exchange rate once when you create a new project. Avoid constantly changing the exchange rate. Allplan always saves prices internally in euros. If the exchange rate changes, recomputed amounts will be different from the original amounts entered.
• If, for example, you want to use the currency entry to check the costs in a different currency, enter the currency exchange rate between the required currency and the euro.

Currency for current project: Select the currency that you want to use. You can change the currency's label: We recommend that you use the ISO code that is used in the banking sector.

Euro rate: Specify the exchange rate between the euro and any other currency (up to ten places before the decimal point and four places after the decimal point).

Euro converter: You can use this calculator to convert any amount from any currency into euros and vice versa. Just select a currency, enter the amount in the box, and select the Enter key to confirm.

Country

Use Country to create the project with country-specific settings (further information). You can only define this setting when you create a project; you cannot change this setting later.