To Create a Wall Cleanup Group Definition

Use this procedure to create a wall cleanup group definition. A cleanup group definition must exist in the drawing before you can assign walls and wall styles to the cleanup group.

  1. Click Manage tabStyle & Display panelStyle Manager.

    The Style Manager is displayed with the current drawing expanded in the tree view.

  2. Expand Architectural Objects, and expand Wall Cleanup Group Definitions.
  3. Create a cleanup group definition:
    If you want to … Then …
    create a cleanup group definition with default properties right-click Wall Cleanup Group Definitions, and click New.
    create a cleanup group definition from an existing definition right-click the cleanup group definition you want to copy, and click Copy. Right-click, and click Paste.
  4. Enter a name for the new cleanup group definition, and press Enter.
  5. Select the new cleanup group definition.
  6. Click the General tab, and enter a description of the cleanup group.
  7. Click the Design Rules tab.
  8. Specify the design rules:
    If you want to … Then …
    allow walls assigned to this cleanup group to clean up with walls in a host drawing when the current drawing is inserted as an Xref Select Allow wall cleanup between host and xref drawings. Clear this option if you do not want the walls to cleanup with walls in the host drawing.
    Note: The cleanup group definition in the xref drawing controls cleanup with walls in the host drawing.
    allow objects anchored to walls assigned to other cleanup groups to be moved or copied to walls assigned to this cleanup group Select Allow objects anchored to walls in other cleanup groups to be moved or copied to walls in this cleanup group. Clear this option if you do not want objects anchored to walls in other cleanup groups to be moved or copied to walls assigned to this cleanup group.
  9. Click OK.

    If you want to add notes, files, or documents to a cleanup group definition, see Attaching Notes and Files to a Wall Cleanup Group Definition.