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■ Finding All Drawing Objects Containing Specific SQL Information (page
1249)
■
Entering and Editing Object Data (page 1061)
To create a drawing index
1 In Map Explorer (page 2068), right-click Drawings. Click Maintenance.
2 In the
Drawing Maintenance dialog box (page 1920), under Active Drawings,
select the drawings for which you want to create indexes.
If another user has activated the drawing, you cannot create an index for
it.
3 Click Drawing Index.
If the selected drawing does not have an index or the index is out of date,
the check box beside the index type under Generate Index is selected.
4 In the
Drawing Statistics dialog box (page 1926), under Generate Index,
select the type of index to create.
To generate an object data index, click Object Data. Select the object data
table and fields. Click OK.
5 Click OK.
6 Click OK to confirm.
AutoCAD Map 3D creates the type of index you specified for each of the
selected drawings.
7 Click Close.
NOTE When you create an index, you may receive a warning message that
AutoCAD Map 3D cannot calculate object extents. This indicates that a
third-party application might have created the object and that the application
is not loaded or the object may not support the geometric extents
methodology of AutoCAD Map 3D.
To remove a drawing index
1 In
Map Explorer (page 2068), right-click Drawings. Click Maintenance.
2 In the
Drawing Maintenance dialog box (page 1920), under Active Drawings,
select the drawings for which you want to remove indexes.
3 Click Drawing Index.
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