Use the Styles of descriptions dialog to define description styles for elements. The dialog displays after you click a (…) button in the Dimensioning style definition dialog.
To being defining a description, open the Styles of description dialog from:
- Menu: Steel > Styles > Description styles
- Ribbon: ASD - Drawings > Styles > Description styles
- Command line: RBCS_DESCRIPTION.
This dialog operates in a similar manner as the Dimensioning styles dialog. A set of description styles is saved to a DWG format file or in a template (a DWT file) .
To display styles defined for a category type, select an option under Category. When you highlight an option for Style, all styles defined for the selected category are displayed. A preview of a selected style is shown in the Preview field.
Available categories:
One style defined for each category is the default style, which will be applied during manual (not automatic) definition of symbols in a drawing.
Use the buttons in the dialog:
- New - click this to open a dialog where you can define a description style for a selected category. The name of thye new style and all its settings are inherited from the style currently selected.
- Modify - click this to open a dialog where you can modify a description style of a selected category.
- Delete - click this to delete the style currently selected from the list of available styles for a given category.