7. Publishing

ArchiCAD provides streamlined layout management and drawing publishing capabilities. Not only the previously-created project design view-sets, but also external CAD drawing (DWG, DXF, DGN, etc.) files, as well as raster image files (Tif, Jpeg, Bmp, etc.) and Microsoft® Office documents (Word, Excel, Project) can be freely hot-linked and arranged in the pages of a layout book.

	7.1. Layouting [00:49] After creating a new layout book, various documents and drawings can be imported and placed onto the custom pages. Due to the hotlinks, the layout book will always be automatically updated as the inserted source documents change - saving you plenty of time and effort.
	7.2. Placing detail drawings to layouts [01:39] ArchiCAD 9 provides further streamlined layouting and documenting functionalities. Architects will experience a smoothe design-documentation workflow.
	7.3. Working with drawing numbering grids [00:47] Automated drawing numbering and custom-defined drawing grids can be really appreciated when importing large numbers of detail drawings onto a layout sheet: "automated", "updated" and "full consistency" are the keywords here.
	7.4. Master layouts [00:37] Custom-defined master layouts can ease up the documentation process - various sheet sizes, custom title blocks and office standards can be applied. Automated drawing titles and drawing numbers can be also used, so that your final documentation set will be always consistent and updated.
	7.5. Working with Autotexts in title blocks [00:25] Placing previously-defined Autotexts into custom-defined layout title blocks will save you time when creating the final project documentation set - your layout book will be consistent and always updated.
	7.6. Detail markers [00:27] The smart, parametric detail markers will automatically update and reflect even the most minute changes in your documentation set. Your layout book will always be consistent and up-to-date - without you spending your precious design time on these non-creative procedures.
	7.7. Publishing [00:25] You can publish your project documentation using different methods: saving to your local disk in various file formats, uploading to an Internet site, printing or plotting. You can even create Adobe® Acrobat® PDF books.
	7.8. PDF layout books [00:35] The published Adobe Acrobat PDF documentation set can be opened - displayed, printed or plotted - by virtually anyone, using the freely available Acrobat Reader application.
	7.9. Publishing PDF layout books [01:52] Archiving your project documentation in Adobe Acrobat's PDF format is easier then ever: it takes only the click of a mouse and no need to install extra PDF drivers or other software. This speeds up and simplifies the archiving process.

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