To Synchronize Project Standards With Each Other

Project standard styles and display settings can be distributed among multiple standards drawings, and depend on each other. For example, the styles in a styles drawing should use the display settings from the standard display drawing. If display changes are introduced in a standard styles drawing, and not synchronized with the standard display drawing, styles can display inconsistently across the project. Therefore, you should synchronize project standards drawings with each other when changes have been made to individual standards drawings.

You can synchronize project standards drawings with each other either from the project node in Display Manager or from the Manage tab on the ribbon.

When project standards drawings are synchronized with each other, the following criteria are used to determine how the components are updated:

• Standards drawing type: The display settings in the standard display drawing update the display settings in all standard styles drawings.
• Assigned style types: When a drawing has in the standards configuration setup been associated to a style type, the styles in this drawing will update all other standards drawings that may contain standard styles of that type. For example, if the standards drawing Door Styles.dwg has been associated with the Door style type, the styles in that drawing will overwrite any existing door standard styles in all of the other standards drawings. Note that in most cases, you will not place standard styles anywhere but in the designated standards drawing for that style type.
• Search order: When more than one standards drawings in the standards configuration setup have been associated to a style type, the first standards drawing in the search order will update all other drawings associated to that style type.

Synchronizing project standards drawings with each other is an automatic synchronization process, where no user interaction is possible. That means that no styles or display settings can be excluded from the synchronization process.

1. Verify that the project of which you want to synchronize the standards is the current project.
2. Click Manage tabStyle & Display panelDisplay Manager.
3. Select the Project Standards node in the tree view, right-click, and click Synchronize Project Standards Drawings.
4. When the synchronization is finished, click OK to exit Display Manager.
   Note: Alternatively, you can click Manage tabProject Standards panelSynchronize Project Standards.