AUGIWorld Magazine November/December 2007 - (Page 38) Love to create those colored floor plans? Property Set Definition is the key. Figure 1 Automatic. There are many flavors of Automatic Property Definitions. • Click the ‘Add Automatic Property Definition’ icon by referring to Figure 2. • The ‘Automatic property Source’ dialog opens. The list of items you see here are all automatically extractable data. Check the items you want and click OK. See Figure 3. You will see the right pane of the style manager populated with the property sets. Pay attention to the columns, namely: Name, Description, Type, Source, Default, Units, Format, Example, Visible, and Order. I will explain many of these columns in the next issue. Don’t worry about them for the moment. Now let’s add a manual property definition. • Click the ‘Add Manual property Definition’ icon. • In the ‘New Property’ dialog box that pops up, enter the name as ‘Remarks’and click OK. see a drop-down arrow appearing. Click this arrow and you will see other options for ‘Type.’ • Similarly, add another manual property definition and type ‘Fire_Rating’ for the name. Click OK. For type, choose ‘Real’ as this is going to be a number. Here, pay attention to the property name. I’m using an underscore between Fire and Rating. I advise you not to use spaces in property names, as we will use this name to define attributes in the future when creating schedule tags. Figure 3 • In the ‘Definitions’ tab, you will see the ‘Remarks’ manual property getting added. Ensure that for type, ‘Text’ is selected as the remark is going to be an alphabetical character. Click the cell under the ‘Type’ column and you will Let us now try to make use of the PSD which we have just created. • Click OK to close the ‘Style Manager.’ • Draw a few walls. It’s better if you can draw walls of different styles. • Now, you need to attach the PSD you have just created to the walls. • Select the walls and in the ‘Properties Palette’ click’ the ‘Extended Data’ tab. Use Ctrl+1’ if the Properties Palette is not displayed. Currently you don’t see any property sets listed here. Attaching a PSD Figure 2 Figure 4 38 w w w. A U G I . c o m http://www.AUGI.com
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