Changing The Associativity Of A Space - Autodesk 24108-051400-9000 - AutoCAD Revit Architecture Suite 2008 User Manual

IMPORTANT When you manually update an associative space, for the following settings the last-used settings
in the Properties palette will be used: Filter boundary set, Maximum gap size, and Ignore holes. Before you update
a space, verify that the last used settings are indeed the ones you need for the update of this space. For example,
you have generated an associative space that has Ignore holes set to No, because you want to deduct a number
of columns represented by polylines from the space area. Later, you generate some other spaces that have Ignore
holes set to Yes, because you do not want to deduct anything from them. When you then manually update the
first space, it will change its Ignore holes setting from Yes to No, as this was the last-used value when generating
a space in the drawing. In most cases this behavior will be undesirable, so if the last-used settings are not identical
to the desired settings, generate a dummy space with the desired values before updating your space.
The existing space is updated to fit into one of the 2 closed boundaries.
NOTE Bounding objects added while Automatically update associative spaces is off (
Automatic
Only objects added or modified while Automatically update associative spaces is on will be used to update the
spaces. If you encounter the situation above, delete the bounding wall and re-insert it with the setting turned
on.
4 Create a new associative space in the empty boundary, as described in
page 1587.

Changing the Associativity of a Space

If you make a non-associative space associative, the software searches for objects that can be used as bounding objects
for the space. The centroid of the space will be used as the virtual pick point. If the centroid of the space lies outside
the original space, then the closest point to the centroid of the space will be used. Only objects currently visible in the
view port can be used as boundary set.
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Updates" on page 1599) will not be used to update spaces later when the setting is turned on again.
Activating and Deactivating
Generating Associative Spaces" on