The following points need to be taken into consideration to work efficiently with the project standards feature:
- Project standards can be used only with projects. A drawing must be part of a project to be synchronized with project standards. Project standards cannot be applied to standalone drawings. You can copy standard styles and display settings into standalone drawings, but they will not be synchronized when the standards change.
- Project standards can be distributed among multiple standards drawings, if desired. However, there can be only one drawing that is designated for the display settings in a project.
- Project standards can be stored in DWG, DWT, and DWS files.
- AutoCAD standards for layers, text styles, linetypes, and AutoCAD dimension styles must be placed in DWS files.
- Demand loading needs to be enabled for working with project standards. The XLOADCTL system variable must be set to 2 (default value).