To Configure Space Styles

Configuring spaces styles involves the following steps.

To create a space style

To specify a lighting and equipment load per area

To specify a classification

1. Open the drawing to which you want to add spaces.
2. Click Manage tab Style & Display panel Style Manager .
3. In Style Manager, expand the current drawing.
4. Expand Architectural Objects Space Styles.
5. Right-click Space Styles, and click New.
6. Rename the new style, and verify that it is selected.
7. In the right pane, click the General tab.
8. At the bottom of the pane, click Property Sets.
9. In the Edit Property Sets Data dialog, click (Add Property Sets).
10. In the Add Property Sets dialog, select SpaceEngineeringStyles.
    Note: This property set is only available in drawings created from templates provided with Autodesk Building Systems 2007 or AutoCAD MEP 2023 toolset. If this property set is not available, you can copy and paste it from the Aecb Model drawing template using Style Manager. In Style Manager, it is located in Documentation Objects Property Set Definitions.
11. In the Edit Property Sets Data dialog, enter the area lighting and equipment loads.

    You can also specify a gbXML space type override if you want to restrict this style to a specific space type. If you use this setting, it overrides any classification you specify for the space style as shown in the following steps.

12. Click the Classifications tab.
13. For Space Occupancy, click .
14. In the Select Classification dialog, expand the directories under the desired standard, and select a space type.
15. Use the previous steps to create additional space styles.
16. To modify the display of spaces with the selected style, click the Display Properties tab, and modify the display settings as desired.
    Note: You must assign a classification to use the gbXML export feature. You can assign a classification to the space style, or you can specify a classification override in the space style property set. You can also manually specify a classification on the Extended Data tab of the Properties palette.