To Use Project Standards

Project standards help ensure consistency across a project.

1. Create standard styles, display settings, and AutoCAD components in one or more standards drawings.

   Standards drawings can be drawing files (DWG), drawing templates (DWT), or AutoCAD standard files (DWS).

   Optionally, you can create different project standards files for different styles, display settings, and AutoCAD components.

2. If desired, create a tool catalog that uses the styles from the standards drawings for their tool definitions.
3. Optionally, you can create a Content Browser library that should be used throughout the project.
4. Associate the standards drawings with the project.
5. If there are multiple standards drawings for styles, define which style type should be controlled by which standards drawing.
6. Set up the desired synchronization behavior of the project.

   You can choose between different synchronization modes, depending on your project workflows. For example, you can specify that a project drawing is synchronized with the standards when it is opened, or you can specify that synchronization happens only manually.

7. Add standard styles and display settings to your project drawings by one of these methods:
   • Use tools from the standard palettes.
   • Use tools from the standard Content Browser library.
   • Copy styles and display settings from the standards drawings through Style Manager and Display Manager.
8. Synchronize project drawings with the project standards. Project drawings can be synchronized automatically on opening, or manually by the user.
9. Update any inconsistent objects.