Style and Standard Editor - Standard Reference

The active standard determines the styles available for use in a drawing document.

What's New: 2023

Individual styles may be edited in the current document, but the default values for all drawing objects originate with the standard.

Access

Ribbon: Manage tab Styles and Standards panel Styles Editor . In the Style and Standard Editor dialog box, select a Standard style 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 delete unused styles from the document.

General tab

Sets format and values for general attributes.

Units

Sets the measurement options for the selected drawing standard.

Linear sets the units of measurement. Substyles that refer to this standard use this setting. Click the arrow and select from the list.

Decimal Marker specifies the character to use as a decimal. Substyles that refer to this standard use this setting. Click the arrow and select from the list.

Preset Values

Shows the value type displayed in the list.

Line Weight, Text Height, Scale, or Section Hatch Angle sets the default values for drawings using the selected standard. Click the arrow to set the value type and then click a value to set.

New opens the Add New Line Weight, Add New Text Height, Add New Scale, or Add New Hatch Angle dialog box. Enter a new value in the box, and then click OK to add it to the values list or click Apply to continue adding values.

• Add New Line Weight accepts only the default units.
• Add New Text Height accepts only the default units.
• Add New Scale accepts a new scale but does not validate its format. You can enter two examples of the same scale but with different formats and both are added to the list.

  Scale entries are grouped by format type in this order: decimal, fractional, multiple, architectural.

• Add New Hatch Angle accepts deg for degrees (the default unit), or rad for radians. Values in radians are automatically converted to degrees after you click OK or Apply in the Add New Hatch Angle dialog box.

Click Cancel to close the dialog box without adding a value to the list.

Delete deletes the selected value from the list.

Character Exclude

Edits the list of characters to exclude from automatic alphabetical indexing.

List edits the list of excluded characters.

Apply to selects drawing annotations where to exclude the listed characters.

Note: The Character Exclude setting applies to indexing of newly created views or table rows. Existing objects in the drawing are not affected.

Global Line Scale

Sets the scale of all line styles in drawings using this standard.

Standard Reference

Specifies drawing behavior specific to the selected standard, such as section view lines.

Comments

Enter a comment about the definition of a particular style, such as date created, created by, or derived from a particular standard.

View Preferences tab

Sets the view label defaults, thread edge display, projection type, and front view plane.

View Label Defaults:

View Type

Select each view type and edit the view label defaults for the selected view type.

Label Prefix

Edits the text to be used as a prefix to the view identifier.

Constrain to Drawing Border

If selected, the view label maintains its relative position to the view boundary.

Use Delimiter

Select Use Delimiter to use two view label strings separated by a delimiter.

Note: The delimiter line is displayed in the drawing regardless of contents of the lower text box.

Display

Edits the view label text.

Edit view label

Edits the text formatting and content of the view label in the Format Text dialog box.

Note: The formatting is not visible in the Display field but is applied to the view label in the drawing.

Click Insert View Scale to insert the view scale at the cursor position in the text field.

Click Insert View Identifier to insert the view identifier at the cursor position in the text field.

Position

Sets the default position of the view label.

Above places the view label above the drawing view by default.

Below places the view label below the drawing view by default.

Visibility

Toggle Label Visibility controls the default setting for visibility of the view label.

Default Cut Edges

Sets the default appearance of the cut line in the drawing. Change the View Type to Detail or Section and select the setting for a Jagged cut line view or Smooth cut line view.

Default Thread Edge Display

Sets the appearance of thread edges in the drawing. Select the setting for section views and for top views.

Projection type

Sets the projection angle for drawing views. Click the image to select First Angle or Third Angle.

Front View Plane

Sets the preferred viewing plane to use as front view when creating a drawing view. Affects the orientation of all subsequent drawing views, but has no effect on existing views. Use the drop-down control to select Front View Plane as XY, YZ, XZ or From Model.

When From Model option is selected, front view orientation settings from model document are used to calculate view orientations in drawings.

Available Styles tab

Specifies referenced substyles for use with the standard. Some styles require another style to complete its definition. For example, dimension styles reference text styles to format dimension text.

Style Type

lists styles specific to drawing documents, each of which may have multiple definitions. Click a style to display definitions.

Choose Styles to Use in Standard

lists style definitions and comments, if available. Click the desired style definition to use in the current drawing document.

Object Defaults tab

Shows the current settings of the Object default style.

Active Object Defaults

Selects the object defaults in the active standard and lists them in the window.

Edit Object Defaults style

Activates the Object Defaults style, where you can edit one or more object defaults.

For more information, see Style and Standard Editor - Object Defaults Styles.

Object Defaults view

Shows the settings of object defaults selected in the Active Object Defaults.

Material Hatch Pattern Defaults tab

Controls a mapping between materials and hatch patterns.

Default Hatch Pattern

Selects the default hatch pattern for a new material.

Note: If you import materials, all imported materials are mapped to the selected hatch pattern.

Click the pencil to edit the selected style. When you save the style, the changes are in effect wherever the style is used.

Import Materials

From File... Click to import materials from a part file. Use the Open dialog box to locate the part file.

From Library Click to import all material names from the material library.

Thumbnail

Shows the hatch pattern corresponding to the selected hatch style.

Mapping Table

Displays a list of materials and corresponding hatch patterns.

• To add a material, click at the last row in the table, and enter the material name.
• To rename a material, select the corresponding row, and enter the new material name.
• To change the mapping for a material, click the Hatch Pattern field and select a new hatch pattern from the list.
• To change the mapping for several materials at the same time, use Ctrl or Shift to create a multiple selection, then click the Hatch Pattern field corresponding to a selected material, and select a new hatch pattern from the list.
• To delete a material from the mapping table, select the material, right-click in the window, and click Delete.