Style and Standard Editor dialog box

Creates and edits styles. Styles defined in the Style Library and in the active document are listed in the browser pane; available styles depend on the current document type. The selected style contents are shown in the editor pane.

The Style and Standard Editor sets the active standard in a drawing document and, for part and assembly documents, sets lighting styles.

Note: Sheet metal styles are only available using the Sheet Metal Styles dialog box.

Access

Ribbon: Manage tab Styles and Standards panel Styles Editor

For the current document, you can click:

• Back to return to the previously edited style. You are prompted to save the previous edits.
• New to create new styles. Select the Add to Standard check box to add to the available styles list in the active standard style.
• Save to save changes to an existing style in the current document.
• Reset to return style values to the saved values.
• Filter to show Local Styles , Styles in the Active Standard (drawings only), or All Styles in the browser.
• Import to use the Import Style Definition dialog box to import a style exported from another document.

For the current document, you can click:

Note: On the Manage tab, Styles and Standards panel, you can also use these commands:

• Click Update to refresh the style list in the browser pane to include new or changed styles in the library.
• Click Save to save changed styles to the style library, which replaces the style library version with the new values.
• Click Purge to delete unused styles from the document.

Click a style node in the browser to show information about the selected style in the editor window.

Name

Identifies the selected style.

Location

Indicates if the style is located in the Style Library, the current document, or both.

In Use

Indicates if the style is being used by the document.

Changes

Indicates if changes were made to the style. If changes are made only in the current document, the entry is labeled Local. If changes were made to the Style Library, the entry is Library. If both the local and library styles were changed and the values do not match, the entry is Both.

Click to show definitions of styles used in Drawing documents:

• Standard

• Datum target

• Hatch

• Leaders

• Surface texture

• Balloon

• Dimensions

• ID

• Object defaults

• Weld bead

• Center mark

• Feature control frame

• Layers

• Parts list

• Weld symbol

Click to show definitions of styles used in Part and Assembly documents:

• Lighting