For each new drawing that you want to use with uCAD, you must choose which connection to use for that drawing. (These are the connections you added in uClient.) This setup only needs to be done once per drawing.
To set up an AutoCAD® drawing for use with uCAD, follow these steps:
- Start AutoCAD® and open the drawing file that you want to use with the Space Manager.
- On the AutoCAD® menu bar, click the Unifier menu, and select Setup uCAD.
- In the Setup window, select a connection. The URL and company name associated with the connection name are populated.
- Click OK.
The following additional options are now available under the Unifier menu:
- Create or Modify <Level type>: Allows you to associate a drawing with a Space Manager level. In the above example, Floors was the name given in uDesigner to define the level type.
- Create Spaces: Allows you to create a new space object. The sub-menu lists all of the available space types as defined in uDesigner.
- Establish Link: Allows you to link existing AutoCAD® polylines to uCAD space records.
- View or Modify Spaces: Allows you to list or modify all spaces defined on this drawing.
- Outlines: Allows you to turn on or turn off the outlines around spaces in a drawing in uCAD.
- Fill: Allows you to turn on or turn off fill colors in the various spaces in the drawing. These fill colors were configured for the space type by the Administrator.
- Text: Allows you to turn on or turn off fill colors in the various spaces in the drawing. These fill colors were configured for the space type by the Administrator.
- Generate uCAD Files: Allows you to publish your drawing.
The levels type and space types displayed under the Unifier menu are based on the Space Manager designs created in uDesigner, imported into a Unifier environment, and associated with the connection selected in the Setup uCAD window.