To Refresh the Project Navigator

Use this procedure to refresh the project view on the Project Navigator palette.

When multiple people are working on the same project simultaneously, the situation can occur that one person’s Drawing Explorer view on the Project Navigator palette becomes out of sync with the changes of another.

For example, user 1 is adding/moving/deleting constructs of a project. At the same time, user 2 is annotating sheets. User 2 is not automatically notified that user 1 has removed some constructs from the project. If user 2 tries to open a removed construct from the Project Navigator on their machine, an error message results.

To prevent this situation, refresh the Project Navigator by clicking (Refresh Project) so that all items are updated to reflect the current project status.

1. On the Quick Access toolbar, click Project Navigator .
2. Click the tab for which you want to refresh the file tree.
3. Click .

Alternatively, you enter aecrefreshproject on the command line to refresh the project.

Note: It is recommended that you do this frequently during a project session when multiple people are working on the same project.