Setting Up Project Standards
Setting up of project standards is usually a Project Administrator's task, which involves the following:
- Setting up seed files and seed models - When you create a DGN file, you identify a seed file as a template for the DGN file. The new DGN file is actually a copy of the seed file.
- Configuring DGN libraries - A DGN library, sometimes referred to as a DGNLib, contains data that is shared throughout files and among users. While setting up project standards, you may do the following in DGNLibs:
- Customize the drawing seed files
- If you want to process a drawing a 3D design model referenced into a drawing model or sheet model as a cached visible edge reference, then set the same in the respective drawing seed
- Set up the sheet index
- Organize project link sets, which include the following:
- Create link sets
- Create links in Explorer
- Set up configuration variable links to automatically harvest content within folders
- Create drawing boundaries
- Define the display styles and set up display rules
- Define detailing symbols styles, text styles, dimension styles, multiline styles, custom line styles, element templates, and item types
- Define labels and text favorites
- Define the level structure
- Create templates for patterning of section elements
- Create templates for tables and reports