Panel Builder Best Practices
- Do not put Panel Builder configurations into Cap Standards. Panel Builder items placed into a standard will not be counted in the standard or show in the Worksheet BOM.
- As much as possible, maintain one custom catalog per drawing.
- When sharing within an office, keep the drawing and custom catalog in the same folder on the network, mapped the same on each user machine.
- Do not use the AutoCAD Mirror, Explode or WBlock commands on Panel Builder configurations. Doing so will corrupt these configurations.
- Do not copy and paste configurations from one drawing to another.
- To maintain future flexibility when editing, give Panel Builder configurations short and unique names. Do not include the height of the frame in the name.
- Use the Configuration Manager to rebuild configurations when sharing with a remote office or notebook computer.
- If you have multiple drawings sharing the same custom catalog, don't rebuild the custom catalog from one of the drawings. If you do so, each drawing will need to be rebuilt into its own unique custom catalog.
- Use Static Elevations for large drawings with many occurrences of the same configurations. Reserve dynamic elevations for complicated configurations where an entire run of panels needs a single elevation.
- Panel Builder entities must be converted to 3D first for the Change 3D Height command to work properly on them.