"New Project - Additional Settings" dialog box

Project and Resource Administration dialog box / Create new projects

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 will be 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 from the corresponding setting after you have confirmed a prompt. All changes made since the project was created (for example, new line type definitions or new patterns) will be lost.

Attributes

Here you set whether the attributes and attribute groups are to be defined and saved on a project-specific basis or whether the office-wide attribute standard is to be used.

If, for example, the office standard of a project has changed, you can use to update the attributes of the current project or another 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.

Property set template

Here you can specify whether additional attribute sets are to be assigned for the attribution of the components of the ALLPLAN project in addition to the standard attributes of ALLPLAN. This is necessary, for example, if a uniform description of the component properties must be ensured across all disciplines within the scope of BIM-compliant planning.

The following options are available:

• IFC Common
  This attribute set supports you in preparing an IFC export. New projects are preset with this attribute set.
  
  As a result, the main ALLPLAN object types such as wall, window, etc. are automatically assigned the appropriate attribute set (also called "property set" or "Pset") for the IFC export. In the Properties palette or in the Modify attributes dialog box, you can assign the appropriate values to the individual attributes. The IFC Entity attribute can be used to make the entity IFC-compliant, e.g. to categorize a smart symbol as "furniture".
• Bimplus
  If the ALLPLAN project is already linked to a Bimplus project, the attribute sets predefined for the Bimplus project can also be assigned (see also "Project handling with standardized Bimplus attribute sets"). If the ALLPLAN project still does not have any Bimplus link, you will be automatically prompted to establish a link the next time you open the project.
• None
  No additional attribute sets are assigned.

When you select IFC Common and Bimplus, Allplan automatically switches the path settings of the Attributes to Project.

Note: The attributes contained in the Properties palette or the Modify Attributes dialog box are directly related to the setting selected here.

Catalogs

Urban planning symbols

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

CAD-TAI project assignment

SmartCatalog
This sets the path to the folder of existing XML catalogs and selects the one you want. After selecting the XML file, click Open, then the corresponding catalog name replaces the "SmartCatalog" placeholder name. In addition, the name can also be found in the catalog assignment.

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

Offset coordinates

Offset (m)

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.

Aways enter the values in meters.

Settings

Project angle for rotated plan view

Default value for rotation of the plan view in the graphics windows.

The setting here initially applies to all newly opened graphics windows in the current project. In contrast, go to Rotated plan view and select the only for the active graphics window setting on an individual basis.

Enter the value in the current unit of angle.

Default reference scale settings

Default settings for the Reference scale suggested for the project in the planning stage in particular, as well as for the (IFC) export.

Country settings

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.

Office resource path

It can only be selected for ALLPLAN Share projects as well as for owners or administrators of Bimplus teams.

The choice of source from which the settings for the resources used in the project should be taken (see "Use of Project Resources"):

• Office standard folder
  Use of settings for the office standard. The default settings defined for an office are generally stored locally or in a LAN/WLAN in the \Std subfolder of the central file storage folder.
• Name of the Cloud Office resource file
  Use of the settings from a COR file saved in the Allplan cloud (see "Saving and Administering Resources in the Cloud").