About Changing Display Properties of Mask Blocks

In most cases, you want the appearance of objects that belong to the same style to be consistent throughout a drawing. To achieve this, you specify the display properties of the mask blocks in each mask block definition style. However, in certain instances, you may need to override a display property for an individual mask block to achieve a specific result. All the display properties that you can specify in mask block definition styles are available for individual mask blocks:

• The visibility of mask block components
• The layer, color, and linetype of mask block components
• The lineweight, linetype scale, and plot style of mask block components

Note: If the mask block is attached to a grid, you can change the anchor properties as well.

When you change the display properties of a mask block, the changes apply only to that mask block. Other mask blocks of the same definition style are not affected. To change the display properties of all mask blocks of a specific definition style, see Creating Mask Block Definitions.