Use the Part description style dialog to define a new style or modify an existing style of part or assembly description.
The dialog displays after you click New or Modify in the Styles of descriptions dialog when the Parts or Assemblies category is selected.
Define parameters:
- Style name - use this edit field to specify a name for the style
- Under Sight, select a method of opening generation in a drawing
- Text on part - when this is selected, you can define a description in the Text field. Use the Frame shape field to specify a frame for the text. Text is placed within the contour of a dimensioned element (positioned to avoid overlapping of elements displayed in a drawing).
- Leader - when this is selected, there are 3 edit fields available: Text over line, Text under line, Text in frame. Define each of them using any user-defined character string.
There are options available under these fields that, when selected, add a variable to the defined comment at the cursor position:
%%Pos - if this is selected, description of a position is added.
%%Name - if this is selected, a profile or plate name is added.
%%Length - if this is selected, profile or plate length is added.
%%Mat - if this is selected, a name of a part material is added.
%% Weight - if this is selected, a calculated weight of a part is added.
%%Quant - if this is selected, a number of parts is added.
%%Surf - if this is selected, a type of surface finishing of a structure element is added (available in the Part description style dialog; it is not available in the dialog for the assembly description style).
%%Family - if this is selected, the name of a family to which the part belongs to is added.
- Text style - select a font to be applied in descriptions
- Frame shape - select a frame shape for a leader: rectangular, rounded, or none (without frame)
Text in leaders is positioned outside dimension lines in order to avoid overlapping of leaders with other drawing elements or leaders with other leaders.