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Appendix A – Recommendations about AutoCad® maps
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Building Technologies 008904_a_en - DMS8000 MP3.15 Graphical Map Configuration
Fire Safety & Security Products 09.2005
Create an “extents view”
 From the original plan, make an extents view, exactly as you want it to appear in
MM8000 / MT8001.
1. Draw a rectangle on a new layer ‘MM8000 / MT8001_Extents’, with the de-
sired drawing size.
2. Perform a ‘Zoom extents’ to view the result and note the values of the drawing
extents with the command:
EXTMIN = reference of the lower left side.
EXTMAX = reference of the upper right side.
3. Round these values and note them on the layer ‘MM8000 / MT8001_Extents’
4. Remove the rectangle.
5. Draw a new rectangle based on the EXTMIN and EXTMAX values that you
have chosen.
6. Switch off the layer ‘MM8000 / MT8001_Extents’.
Save the drawing
 Save and close the drawing.
Note that MP3.15 can support AutoCAD format 2005 and earlier. In case of
troubles with the native format of your version, you may try to “Save as” the file
in another format. Keep the original as reference drawing for future changes.
 Never change the extents view. This way you will never have to redo the place-
ment of active symbols.
Adding CAD fonts
 Additional CAD fonts can be manually added in the folder:
<installation folder>\Resources\CADfonts
e.g. C:\MM8000\ Resources\CADfonts
If not already existing, the ‘CADfonts’ subfolder must be created.