About Converting Area Group Styles to Zone Styles

If you open a drawing from a previous version of AutoCAD Architecture 2025 toolset that has area group styles in it, the area group styles will be automatically converted to zone styles. The following table maps area group style properties to zone style properties:

Area group style property Zone style property Value/Default value
Name Name Existing value
Description Description Existing value
Keynote Keynote Existing value
Notes/Reference Docs Notes/Reference Docs Existing notes and attached documents
Property Sets Property Sets Area group property sets are converted to zone property sets and attached to the converted zone style
N/A List Definition Standard
Note: In previous versions of AutoCAD Architecture 2025 toolset, list definitions were attached to zones or zone templates. They are now attached to the space style or the zone style.
Exclusivity    
N/A Allow a space to only be attached to one zone of this style Not selected
N/A ’Allow a zone of this style to only be attached to other zones of this style Not selected
Classifications Classifications Existing classification values.
Note: Area group classification definitions from legacy drawings are converted to zone classification definitions and applied to converted zone styles.
Display Representations    
Plan Plan Existing settings
Plan High Detail Plan High Detail Existing settings
Plan Low Detail Plan Low Detail Existing settings
N/A Plan Presentation Drawing Default
N/A Plan Screened Drawing Default