Customizing Schematic Symbol Content; Converting Schematic Symbol Styles To Blocks - Autodesk 235B1-05A761-1301 - AutoCAD MEP 2010 User Manual

Customizing Schematic Symbol Content

This section provides information on several conversion tools you can use to create schematic symbol
content.
For information on creating style-based content manually, see
on page 599.

Converting Schematic Symbol Styles to Blocks

You can convert a set of schematic symbol styles to their individual components: the style settings and the
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a set of drawings that contain the AutoCAD blocks. The process creates one drawing per view block per
style, so each drawing contains a single block definition.
a symbol conversion script (Custom Content File or CCF file) that contains the style settings. The script
contains not only the values for the style settings, but also the file path locations of the output drawings
that contain the AutoCAD blocks.
Typically, you use this process when you have a set of existing schematic symbol styles that you want to
customize. You convert the styles to their individual components, customize the components (the blocks
and the style settings in the script), and then use the modified script to convert the modified blocks to new
styles.
NOTE This conversion process produces only the previously specified output. Your original schematic symbol
style drawings remain unchanged.
To convert a set of schematic symbol styles to their individual blocks
1 Click Manage tab
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blocks used by the style views. The output of the conversion process includes:
MEP Content panel
Workflow for Creating Style-Based Content
Decompose Symbols .