ARCHIBUS ships with several equipment, furniture, and telecommunications block drawings that you may want to add to your floor plan drawings. These blocks are found in one of the following locations in the sample project. The location depends on your operating system.
This directory holds block drawings used by the HQ sample project and illustrates how you might organize blocks that are specific to a project.
You can easily access these block drawings by using the Insert Block task and using the command’s Browse button to choose the block drawings located in these folders.
In addition to using the block drawings shipped with ARCHIBUS, you may want to use block drawings provided by other sources. For example, when you purchase furniture, the furniture manufacturer may provide a library of block drawings depicting the furniture you have purchased. As long as these blocks are in DWG format, you can add them to your floor plan drawings using the Insert/Block command. Typically, you will want to store these block drawings in the \ARCHIBUS\Projects\<ProjectName>\Symbols directory.
Note: When using blocks from other sources, keep in mind that the ARCHIBUS Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD or the DWG Editor cannot convert nested blocks (blocks composed of other blocks) to asset symbols.