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Use Notification of Standards Violations While Working in a Drawing
You can set options for notification in the CAD Standards Settings dialog box
and with the STANDARDSVIOLATION system variable. If you select Display
Alert upon Standards Violation in the dialog box, then an alert is displayed
when a violation occurs while you work. If you select Display Standards Status
Bar Icon, an icon is displayed when you open a file associated with a standards
file and when you create or modify nonstandard objects.
By default, if an associated standards file is missing or if a violation occurs
while you work, a pop-up message appears in the lower-right corner of the
application window (the status bar tray).
You should check a drawing for standards violations using the Check Standards
dialog box before using the notification options. This prevents triggering a
notification alert carried over from a previous session. After a drawing has
been checked and fixed, the notification options trigger an alert only if a new
violation occurs.
Display Alerts for Named Objects
If you select Display Alert upon Standards Violation, you are notified of
violations when you create or edit only named objects (linetypes, text styles,
layers, and dimensions). Standards violations that do not affect named objects
do not trigger a notification alert. Also, if a named object was marked as
ignored in the Check Standards dialog box, that object no longer triggers a
notification alert, even though the named object is nonstandard. Changing
nonstandard named objects, such as setting a nonstandard layer as current,
does trigger a notification alert.
After an alert is displayed, you can choose to fix or not fix the violation.
Choosing to fix the violation opens the Check Standards dialog box. If it is
already open, the dialog box addresses the specific violations that just occurred.
You can resume your previous work in the Check Standards dialog box after
you respond to the most recent standards violations. Alternatively, if you do
not want to fix violations when alerted, you can click Do Not Fix to dismiss
the alert.
If you open a drawing that has one or more associated standards files, an
Associated Standards File(s) icon is displayed in the status bar. If an associated
standards file is missing, a Missing Standards File(s) icon is displayed in the
status bar. If you double-click the Missing Standards File(s) icon and then
resolve or dissociate missing standards files, the Missing Standards File(s) icon
is replaced by the Associated Standards File(s) icon.
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