To Turn on Materials for a Window Style

Use this procedure to turn on material assignments for individual display representations in a window style.

  1. Click Manage tabStyle & Display panelStyle Manager.
  2. Expand Architectural Objects, and expand Window Styles.
  3. Select the style you want to edit.
  4. Click the Display Properties tab.
  5. Select the display representation in which you want changes to appear, and select Style Override.
  6. If necessary, click .
  7. Click the Layer/Color/Linetype tab.
  8. Select By Material for each component you want to be controlled by the material. The ByMaterial checkbox is unavailable for components that cannot be assigned a material.

    When you select By Material for a display component, all other settings in the dialog box are greyed out. The display properties are now taken from the material definition, so you can no longer set them directly in the display properties of the window style.

  9. Click OK.