4.1.1. Project management

Drawing management in ARCHLine.XP^® is based on the project.

In ARCHLine.XP^® , the project contains the whole description of a building or buildings and all of the information needed to represent it in construction plan and three-dimensional views, sections, and printing layouts. This method simplifies design work, helps clear navigation among the numerous projects of an architect.

All this information is stored together in one file with .pro extension.

ARCHLine.XP^® saves all your settings together with the project and allows you to customize them at any phase in the design process.

Moving projects to another computer or giving it to a colleague become a single click.

As you edit the building design in any view, ARCHLine.XP^® follows those changes throughout the project. This means that the 3D model, any views of the model, sections, the floor plan, and the printing layouts all automatically update to reflect the changes.

Project access rights

Other users may access your projects without any limitation. This means that any project created by user „A” can be opened, modified, saved and copied by user „B”.

We recommend that you use project management.

Managing drawing files

In this case the drawing is made up of the floor plan. You can make a 3D model with sectional drawings and projections. Each drawing has an ASC file extension.

Disadvantages:

• Different views assigned to a floor plan are not saved when you save floor plans. You have to save each drawing file individually.

• The saved drawings are not connected to each other.

• You cannot restore the floor plan from different views.

• Materials and settings created by the user are not saved in the ASC file, so you cannot transfer them to another computer.

Importing and Exporting

ARCHLine.XP^® is compatible with other drawing and display programs.

You can load drawings made with ARCHLine.XP^® or earlier versions, AutoCAD^® DXF, DWG, DWF drawings and 3D Studio or SketchUp model as well.

Besides ARCHLine formats, the program supports AutoCAD^® DXF, DWG and DWF formats, and file formats of ARCHLine.XP^® Render Studio, 3D Studio, Cinema4D, Artlantis,  programs.

Template file

Creating the drawing template means setting the drawing surface and all the drawing tool properties. You can save personal settings as part of the template to speed up the drawing process. You can save the created templates to a template file with a SET extension.

The File menu includes the following:

• file operations for loading and saving drawings, projects files,

• settings,

• print preview and printing commands.

&This chapter contains commands for file operations only.
For the description of individual settings, see chapter 2.10. Display settings and chapter 3.1. Architectural settings. For printing instructions, see chapter 14. Printing.

2If you double click on .pro and .asc files in the Explorer, ARCHLine.XP^® starts automatically, and the selected file is loaded.
If ARCHLine.XP^®   is running, you can load any .pro and .asc or image file from the Explorer by drag and drop.