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The settings are arranged by program so you can more easily locate
the settings that apply to your project. There are settings for
AutoCAD Land Development Desktop, Autodesk Civil Design, and
Autodesk Survey.
These settings are all available elsewhere in the program. The Edit
Settings dialog box provides an easy way to change different settings
simultaneously and then save them back to a prototype. By saving
the settings to a prototype, the settings are used automatically
whenever you create a new drawing in a project that is based on that
prototype. You can establish the settings once and then apply them
to each new drawing.
Key Concepts
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The drawing settings are controlled on a drawing-by-drawing basis
unless you save them back to the prototype on which the project is
based. This is designed so that individual drawings in a project can
have different settings.
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The default drawing settings are based on the project prototype
that you select when you create a project. For more information,
see “Working with Drawings” in this chapter.
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If you change the drawing settings, then you can save them back to
the prototype and use them for new drawings that you create.
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If you change the drawing settings for a drawing, only new objects
are affected. Existing objects are not updated with the new drawing
settings.
Prototype Settings
Every AutoCAD Land Development Desktop project must be based on
a prototype. A prototype stores drawing settings. These settings are
copied to each drawing that is created in the project. AutoCAD Land
Development Desktop includes a prototype for meters and a prototype
for feet.