Change drawing file status (in building structure)

With the drawing file status, you define the drawing file on which you draw and which drawing files are visible and/or can be modified. The drawing file status can be set in the Building structure tab and in the Fileset structure tab; these two settings are independent of each other.

To change the drawing file status in the building structure

1. Click Open on a project-specific basis (How).
   

   Activate Open on a Project-Specific Basis... in one of the following ways

   • Menu bar: File

   • Keyboard: Ctrl+Alt+O

   • Toolbar: Standard

   Tip: You can also double-click with the left mouse button in the workspace.

2. Select the Building structure tab.
3. Select the drawing files (in tree view) whose status you want to change.
   

   You can select drawing files and structural levels in the building structure by clicking them or enclosing them in a selection rectangle (using the left mouse button). Selected elements are highlighted blue.

   • To select a single drawing file or structural level, click it.
   • To select a series of non-adjacent drawing files or structural levels, press and hold down the CTRL key and click the drawing files or structural levels one after the other.
   • To select a range of drawing files or structural levels:

   • Click the first drawing file or structural level in the range, then press the SHIFT key and click the last drawing file or structural level in the range at the same time. Only drawing files or structural levels of the same hierarchical level are selected.
   • Click to the right of the first drawing file or structural level in the range and open a selection rectangle while keeping the mouse button pressed down. If you want to select several structural levels, for example, click to the right of the first structural level and enclose the desired structural levels in a selection rectangle. Only drawing files or structural levels of the same hierarchical level are selected.
4. Define the drawing file status in one of the following ways:
   • Click the selection with the right mouse button and select the drawing file status on the shortcut menu.
   • Click one of the three columns.
   • Make use of the space bar. Every time you press the space bar down, the selected drawing files are given a selection status:
     Off – open in reference mode – open in edit mode – active (the drawing file you select last becomes active, the other ones are opened in edit mode). If a drawing file cannot be open in reference mode (if the drawing file in question is empty and does not have a name), this status is skipped.
5. Click Close.

   The drawing files are displayed in accordance with the status set. Only drawing files whose structural level is selected in the building structure are taken into account.

   

   You can select structural levels by clicking the relevant check box. The status of drawing files is taken into account when the corresponding structural level is selected.

   Structural level is selected	Structural level is not selected	Only subordinate structural level(s) are selected

   • Clicking a check box activates the relevant structural level and all subordinate levels.
   • Clicking a check box while pressing the CTRL key only activates this structural level. Subordinate levels are not selected.
   • If subordinate structural levels are selected, a fill is applied to the check box of the superordinate structural level.