Use this procedure to copy the project standard settings from an existing project.
Copying the project standards copies the following standards settings:
- Copy or reference the style and display standards drawings to the new project
- Copy or reference AutoCAD standards drawings to the new project
- Duplicate the association of standards drawings to style types in the new project
- Duplicate the synchronization settings in the new project
When you copy the standards of an existing project to a new project, standards drawings can be either referenced from their original location in the new project, or be copied to the new project.
- If the project standards drawings of the copied project are located within the original project folder, then the drawings are copied to the new project. You would do this if you wanted to have a separate set of project standards drawings for each project you create. That way, you can make project-specific changes for each set of project standards.
- If the standards drawings of the copied project are outside the original project folder, they will not be copied to the new project, but will be referenced from their original location. You could do this if your project standards are not specific to one project, but are rather department-specific or company-wide standards. If you make changes to a project standards drawing referenced by several projects, all projects will be able to be synchronized with the changes.
- Click
Open Project. - Select the project for which you want to set up AutoCAD standards, right-click, and click Project Properties.
- Expand Advanced and click Project Standards
. - Click the Standard Styles tab.
- Click
. - In the Select Project dialog box, select the project file (APJ) from which you want to copy project standards, and then click Open.
- Select the copy settings.
If you want to… Then… overwrite the existing project standards with the copied project standards click Remove existing settings. add the project standards from the selected project to any existing project standards click Append copied settings to existing settings. Existing settings that are inconsistent with the copied settings will be replaced with the copied settings.
- Click OK twice.