Tips & Tricks Series Working with Equipment Blocks

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Tips & Tricks Series. Working with Equipment. Blocks. FMDesktopT software provides powerful … Open your facility drawing in the AutoCAD environment. …

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Tips & Tricks Series
Working with Equipment Blocks
FMDesktop. software provides powerful features that let you manage the display of equipment blocks in your facility drawings. Choosing the right options can make a big difference to the end user.
This document is intended to provide guidelines to show users how to control the way that blocks are displayed and highlighted in FMDesktop. There are three primary highlighting options that control the graphical representation and selection behaviors in facility drawings in the Autodesk?Facility Manager application, a component of the FMDesktop product suite. Choosing the right options can help users have greater success with selecting equipment and space objects on space plans.
Draw Order: Taking it to the Top
The single most important concept to remember when creating and exporting facility drawings that include space and equipment is the order in which those items are displayed. In the AutoCAD?software environment objects are “stacked” in the drawing in the order they are created. Each newly created object is placed on top of existing ones. When facility drawings are published out to Facility Manager in the form of DWF. files, the order of…

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