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Drawing Symbol Regulations

You can use this tool to create areas in compliance with drawing symbol regulations. The Drawing symbol regulations catalog that comes with the cannot be modified. You can find it in the ETC folder (default path).
If you want to change this catalog, you need to copy it to the office standard and assign it to the project.
You can make as many copies as you need; this way, you can create several catalogs tailored to meet the requirements of individual countries.

Plot

You can use this tool to create plots.

Building

You can use this tool to create buildings.

Floor Level

You can use this tool to define any number of stories in a building.

Setbacks

You can use this tool to define setbacks.

Create Drawing Symbol

You can use this tool to create custom drawing symbols.

List Default Planes

You can define the height of architectural elements by entering values for the top and bottom levels relative to an imaginary pair of reference planes. This tool defines the position of these default reference planes.

Label Style

You can use this tool to create a label style.

Elevation Point

You can use this tool to determine the height of architectural components.

Label

You can use this tool to label all architectural elements, advanced elements, instances of smart symbols and objects created in the Object Manager module at a later stage.

Component Number

You can use this tool to number architectural elements.

Urban Planning Reports

You can use this tool to create reports for areas and urban planning codes. These reports can be sent to the printer and imported as PDF files to the document.

Drawing Symbol Legend

You can use this tool to create a legend. Legends can update automatically (depending on the setting you make).

3D to Planes

You can use this tool to convert 3D elements to planes.

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Change Archit. Properties

You can use this tool to display and modify the architecture-specific properties of any architectural element. You can also change different architectural elements in a single operation.

Show, Hide Junctions

You can use this tool to show or hide junction lines (for example, the lines where walls intersect).

Update Labels

You can use this tool to update the labels for all the architectural elements in the loaded, active documents. In the case of large circular spaces (e.g., rooms based on a 2D circle), the area is calculated according to pi and labeled.

Delete Component Number

You can use this tool to delete component numbers assigned to architectural elements.

Restore 3D View

You can use this tool to restore the three-dimensional view of architectural elements.

Find Elements

You can use this tool to find architectural elements.

Replace Label Style

You can use this tool to replace one or more label styles of the same type with another label style.

Reshape Surface Element, Architectural Area

You can use this tool to add areas to hatching, patterns, fills, bitmaps or architectural elements (slabs, rooms, net stories, floors, ceilings, roof covering) or remove such areas.

Split Surface Elements, Archit. Elements

You can use this tool to split hatching, patterns, fills, bitmaps and architectural elements (walls, columns, slabs, beams, upstands, rooms, net stories, floors, ceilings) into two parts. This can be useful if you need to split up the 3D plan while creating the layout.

Merge Surface Elements, Archit. Elements

You can use this tool to merge two areas of hatching, patterns, fills, bitmaps and architectural elements (walls, slabs, beams, upstands, rooms, net stories, floors and ceilings) to form a single element.

Fillet

You can use this tool to fillet elements.

Modify Drawing Symbol, Plot

You can use this tool to modify plots and elements from the drawing symbol regulations.

Color - Black and White Drawing Symbols

You can use this tool to display elements from the drawing symbol regulations in color or in black and white.

Modify Building

You can use this tool to modify buildings.

Extend Building

You can use this tool to add extensions to existing buildings.

Delete Building Parts

You can use this tool to delete building parts.

Modify Building Rep

You can use this tool to specify how existing buildings are displayed.