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[James Quesenberry]

I'm asking this because I'm not sure I understand these libraries completely and I don't want to go and screw things. When I insert a front door into a drawing for the first time, it originally comes from the system library. Then lets say I modify that door drastically and want to insert it again. At this point when the OPENINGS LIBRARY opens it looks like the modified door is coming from the system library but it is really coming from the drawing library, correct or incorrect? I' don't fully understand how Softplan is is holding on to the modified door vs the original unmodified door.

 

It's late and I'm afraid I sound like a lunatic but if there is anyone who can understand my garble I'd appreciate some help in getting my brain wrapped around this topic.

 

Thank you,

[Steve Haarmann]

Whenever you use a wall, symbol, speed note, opening etc. that item is copied from the system library to the drawing library.

This drawing library is then saved with the drawing and goes with it at all times.

 

The primary reason for this is that you want to preserve a drawings integrity.

If you change a symbol or delete it in the system library it will NOT be changed or deleted in the drawing library.

 

This can be confusing when you change an item in the system library and you WANT to change it on the drawing level also.

Note that in the drawing library there is an option to reset a selected item or reset an entire library to system.

 

While this system preserves a drawings integrity you always have the ability to update it to current standards.

[Keith Almond]

To put it simply ...

 

The system library is the default template.

The drawing library is how the default template was set up at the time the drawing was opened, plus any subsequent edits to this drawing only.

 

or more complicatedly ...

 

If you edit at system level, you are editing the template for the next drawing.

For example - If you decide that want ALL the OVERVIEW text in every drawing you that open from NOW ON to be in "ARIAL BLACK" then you edit it at system level.

 

if you edit at drawing level, you are only editing items in that particular drawing. You can edit any item in the drawing without affecting any other drawing.

For example - If you decide you want ALL the OVERVIEW text in the CURRENT drawing ONLY, to be "GARAMOND" you would edit it at drawing level.

 

When you add NEW items to the drawing, you are adding them from the system library. When you add more items that ALREADY EXIST in the drawing you are adding them from the drawing library. So if you have edited the system library between adding items 1 and 2, they will both be the same as item 1. To make them the same as the item in the edited system library, you would have to RESET the item in the DRAWING LIBRARY to update it from the system library.

 

See ... simple explanation, that got more complicated as I added more words ....... So pretty much just what Steve said earlier.