Role of the Draft Administrator

The Draft Administrator applications enable you to configure the Draft environment to suit specific company and/or project requirements in the following areas.

Default Settings

The Draft defaults system allows you to define the following:

• Library pointers

• Layer settings

• Sheet sizes

• Naming conventions

• User-definable styles and colours

• Name string delimiters

The ways in which you set these up are explained in Setting the Draft Defaults.

Libraries

As Draft administrator, you are responsible for setting up the standard libraries that other users will reference during drawing production. You can create new libraries, or edit the content of existing libraries, so that the standard data available to individual Draft users complies with the company requirements for their particular drafting functions. The following types of library are controlled in this way:

• Sheet libraries

• Symbol libraries

• Isodraft Symbol libraries

• Label libraries

• Style libraries

• Representation rules libraries

• Drawlist libraries

• Auto Tagging rule libraries

The ways in which you set these up are explained in subsequent chapters.

Automatic Drawing Production

The Draft Administration options allow you to set up defaults and define rules that control how drawings are automatically produced and annotated. These functions are explained in ADP Administration.

AutoDRAFT Symbols and Sheet Frames

The Draft Administration options allow you to edit symbols and sheet frames for use with AutoDRAFT. You can also import symbols and sheet frames from AutoCAD work directories and macros. These functions are explained in AutoDRAFT Administration

Creating Projects

The Settings > Load data file option allows you to create new project areas using existing data files. This is explained fully in Loading Data Files.

Database Updating

Occasionally all or part of the Draft (PADD) database (DB) may need to be updated to allow for changes made outside the normal Draft operations; typically when a project has been reconfigured or the Design DB has been rebuilt from macros. Updating the Draft database is explained in Updating the Database.