To Remove the Project Context

Use this procedure to remove all project-related information from the drawing files of a project. This may be desirable if you want to hand over the files to a contractor who does not work with the latest version of AutoCAD Architecture 2023 toolset, or if the project no longer exists but you do not want to delete the drawing files.

Much of the project-related information associated with a drawing file does not reside in the drawing file itself, but in the accompanying XML file. This means that you can use all your project files at any time in a non-project-related drawing context. However, if you want to work permanently without the project context, it is recommended that you clean your file set of the unused project files.

Project-related information resides in the following files:

• The APJ file, which contains the general, high-level project data like name, number, project details, and project standards.
• The XML files, each of which stores the project information for an individual drawing file.

If you delete the APJ file and the XML files, the remaining drawing files no longer have connections to a project. They are regular AutoCAD Architecture 2023 toolset drawing files and can be copied, edited, and deleted like any other drawing file.

The drawing files can contain standard styles and display settings, if standards have been set up for the project. When the XML and APJ files are deleted, any standard styles and display settings are no longer synchronized in the now standalone drawings.

Note: Once the project context has been removed, there is no simple way to recreate it. if you have removed the project, and want to re-build a project around the remaining drawing files, build the project from scratch, and import the drawing files into it.

1. In Windows Explorer, navigate to the folder containing the project.
2. In the project folder, delete the APJ file. For example, if you have a project named Office Building, delete the file named Office Building.apj.
3. Open the Elements, Constructs, Sheets, and Views folders, and delete the XML files associated with your drawing files.

   For example, if your Constructs folder contains First Floor Construct.dwg, select and delete the file named First Floor Construct.xml.

4. Repeat the previous step for each drawing file.
   Note: If you reorganize files into a different file structure, you may have to manually reset broken external reference paths in the drawings.