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Now that you have added walls, doors, windows, and stairs to the floor plan, apply different
display configurations to the floor plan. By changing the display configuration, you can control
the hatch pattern detail without having to redraw or rescale the objects. This makes it easy to
shift from this floor plan view to a presentation view or to a reflected ceiling plan view, without
creating new views or drawings.
14 View the floor plan in different display configurations:
■ On the drawing window status bar, select the arrow next to Medium Detail.
■ On the flyout menu that displays, select Presentation, and view the changes to the floor plan
that display.
■ Continue to apply different display configurations, such as Reflected, Low Detail, and High
Detail.
■ After viewing the available display configurations, restore the Medium Detail configuration.
Next, add spaces to the floor plan. The spaces that you create are associative to the walls; if you
move a wall to change the dimensions of a room, the space automatically resizes and the space
tag reports the new area.
15 Add spaces to the floor plan:
■ Click Format menu ➤ Options.
■ On the AEC Object Settings tab, under Space Settings, verify that Automatically update
associative spaces is selected, and click OK.
■ On the Getting_Started tool palette, click the Reception space tool.
■ On the Properties palette, under General, for Style, verify that Reception is selected.
■ For Tag, verify that Aec8_Space_Tag [M_Aec8_Space_Tag] is selected.
■ For Create type, verify that Generate is selected.
■ For Associative, verify that Yes is selected.
■ Under Component Dimensions, for Geometry type, verify that 2D is selected.
■ Move the cursor into the reception area, and click to create a space.
■ Continue to add the other spaces on the floor plan, using the appropriate space tools.
16 On the drawing window status bar, select the Low Detail display configuration.
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