Style and Standard Editor - Layers Styles Reference

Specifies a layer name and attributes for common display properties of drawing objects.

Layers visibility turned On or Off in a drawing. The visibility setting is stored in the drawing, not the style library.

All object types and their associated layers are listed in the Object Defaults style, a substyle of the standard style. The Layers Style window presents all layers in a table for editing.

Access

Ribbon: Manage tab Styles and Standards panel Styles Editor . In the Style and Standard Editor dialog box, click Layers. Click one of the listed layers to edit.

Ribbon: Annotate tab Format panel Edit Layers . In the Style and Standard Editor dialog box, click Layers. Click one of the listed layers to edit.

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, or All Styles in the browser.
• Import to use the Import Style Definition dialog box to import a style exported from another document.

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 remove unused styles and substyles from the current document.

In the Layer Styles window, modify layer attributes as needed.

Note: Changes to layer attributes are saved only in the current document. To replace the style definition in the Style Library, click Manage tab Styles and Standards panel Update .

Click a column heading to reverse the sort order.

Edit pencil

Indicates the layer selected for editing.

Layer Name

Lists layer names in alphabetical order.

On

Sets visibility of a layer. Default setting is On. Click to turn Off.

Note: The layer visibility is not saved to the styles library. You change the layer visibility for a particular drawing.

Color

Sets the layer color. In the drawing, objects on the layer are visible in the selected color.

When this column is sorted, the layers are in RGB order, and other layers by alphabetical order.

Line Type

Sets the layer line type. Click to see the current line type and select from the list. Click the line type column heading to sort by the fixed line type order.

Note: To load linetypes from an AutoCAD .lin file, select Other from the bottom of the Line Type list.

Line Weight

Sets thickness of the lines on the layer. Click to enter a value or select a predefined weight from the list. Click the column header to sort by line weight.

Scale by Line Weight

Select the check box to scale the line type based on the line weight. As the line weight increases, the length of segments and spaces in the line pattern also increase. Imported line types in DWG files usually have this setting turned off. Clear the check box to import line types in DWG files without distortion.

Plot

Controls whether the selected layer is plotted. Select the plot icon to switch the plot property to On/Off. When the plot property is set to OFF, the layer continues to display in the drawing, but it does not print or get published .

Add new layers to standard

Select the check box to add newly created layers to the current standard. Clear the check box to add new layers only to the current document.