To Create a Layer Key Style

Use this procedure to create a layer key style. You can create a layer key style by using default style properties or by copying an existing style. After you create the style, you edit the style properties to customize the characteristics of the style.

If you want to use layer key overrides, you must base the layer key style you create on a layer standard in the current drawing. If you create a nonstandard layer key style, you cannot attach layer key overrides to that layer key style.

1. Click Home tabLayers panelLayer Key Styles. Alternatively, in the Layer Properties Manager palette, click .

The Style Manager is displayed with the current drawing expanded in the tree view.

2. Create a new layer key style:

   If you want to…	Then…
   create a style with default properties	right-click Layer Key Styles, and click New.
   create a style from an existing style	right-click the layer key style you want to copy, and click Copy. Right-click Layer Key Styles, and click Paste.

3. Right-click the new layer key style and click Rename.
4. Enter a name for the new layer key style, and press Enter.
5. Edit the new layer key style:

   If you want to…	Then…
   specify properties for layer keys	see To Edit Layer Key Styles.
   add notes and files to the style	see To Attach Notes and Files to a Layer Key Style.

6. When you finish specifying the properties of the layer key style, click OK.