Sets the attributes for surface texture symbols. The Surface Texture Style is a substyle of the standard.
What's New: 2023
Access
Ribbon:
Manage tab
Styles and Standards panel
Styles Editor
. In the Style and Standard Editor dialog box, click Surface Texture. If available, click one of the listed styles to view or edit.
If you prefer, right-click a surface texture symbol in a drawing, and then select Edit Surface Texture Style.
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 delete unused styles from the document.
Set formatting attributes in the Surface Texture Style window:
General tab
Lay Symbol Filter lists all defined machining lay symbols. Select the check box to include the symbol or clear the check box to make it unavailable in the Surface Texture dialog box.
Substyles are required by the surface texture style to define fully. In this case, the surface texture style is the parent style to leader and text styles.
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Some substyles can be edited while defining the parent style. Click the pencil to edit the selected style. When you save the style, the changes are in effect wherever the style is used.
- Leader Style
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Lists available leader styles in the active standard. Selection determines appearance of leaders associated with surface textures.
- Text Style
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Lists available text styles in the active standard. Selection determines size and font of text used when numbers are entered with a surface texture.
- Symbol
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Sets the size of the machining-prohibited symbol. Click the button to switch between the options.
- Standard Reference
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Specifies the drafting standard that controls surface texture symbol format. Click the arrow to select the desired standard. The drafting standard can be different from the active standard style.
- Comments
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Enter a comment about the definition of a particular style, such as date created, created by, or derived from a particular standard.
- Requirements
- Shows a preview of the surface texture symbol that corresponds to the selected drafting standard
Majority Symbol tab
- Simplified
- Majority indicates that this symbol specifies the standard surface characteristics for the drawing.
- Full list
- Enables to collect all surface texture symbols in sheet regardless of surface texture style or standard or text style. When a unique surface finish symbol is added or deleted from the sheet, the Collection Symbol is updated accordingly.