The Themes Palettes

Use the Themes palettes to analyze feature properties, point clouds, and terrain.

The elements in the Themes palettes are:

  1. View Controls — Display all themes, a specific theme, or the active theme.
  2. Tool Strip — These options affect individual themes.
    Icon Name Description

    Add New Theme

    Creates a theme based on the feature class and property you specify. See

    Edit Selected Theme

    Opens the Theme Properties dialog box, where you can change the parameters for the selected theme.

    Duplicate Selected Theme

    Adds a copy of the selected theme to the theme list. The copy is inactive but selected. To rename it, select through the default name and type a different one.

    Delete Selected Themes

    Removes all selected themes from the list. To replace them, create new ones.

    Refresh Selected Themes

    Redisplays the current parameters for any selected theme, and redisplays the model with those parameters.

    Move Selected Theme Up/Down

    The position of the theme in the list determines its priority. If two themes affect the same feature class, the top one is interpreted first.

  3. Theme Area — Each theme displays a row for each rule, and the color assigned to that rule. The values associated with each rule appear to the right of the color bar. For example, if the first rule defines roads with a single forward lane, its value is 1-2, because it applies to roads that have at least one lane but not more than two. Double-click a color bar to change its color.
  4. Cross-Theme Tools — These tools affect all themes in the list.
    Icon Name Description

    Expand All/Collapse All

    Reduces all themes to their titles only, or expands them to show their rules.

    Import Theme

    Imports previously exported themes stored in XML files.

    Export Themes

    Saves all themes in the list to an XML file.

    Update All

    Redisplays the current parameters for all themes in the list, and redisplays the model with those parameters.