- In the drawing that will contain the style, create the AutoCAD blocks (or the MvBlock) that will represent the object in the orthographic views and in the model view.
- Create the style, as described in Creating Styles.
- In the left pane of Style Manager, navigate to the style, select it, and click the Views tab.
Views tab for an existing device style
- To add a view:
- Click Add.
- For View Name, enter a name, such as Plan or Model.
- For View Block, select a block to represent the view.
You can select from the AutoCAD blocks defined in the current drawing.
Note: Each MvPart creates a unique view block based on the style name and view direction that is retained when inserted into a drawing.
- Specify when to use the selected view:
- For Display Representation, select the display representation in which to display the view.
- For View Directions, select one or more view directions in which to display the view.
Tip: To determine the view block to use to display a style-based object, the software identifies the active display representation (determined by the active display configuration) and the active view direction in the current drawing, and then searches for a view of the style that has the same specified display representation and view direction. If a matching view is found, the associated view block is used to display the object. If multiple matches are found, all of them are used to display the object. If no match is found, the object is not displayed. - If you want the view block to be inserted as an annotation block, select Insert as annotation block.
If desired, you can offset the annotation block from its insertion point by specifying values for Offset in X and for Offset in Y.
Note: When you insert a view block as an annotation block, the Annotation display component for the object type (device, panel, or plumbing fitting) determines its display properties, such as its color, linetype, and lineweight.By defining multiple views with the same specified display representation and view directions, you can display an object using annotative and non-annotative view blocks at the same time, and you can configure the display properties of the view blocks differently. For example, you might have a junction box style that requires a view block to represent the symbology, and a second view block to represent the annotation. This allows you to define the appearance of the annotation view block by configuring the Annotation display component for the junction box, and to define the appearance of the symbol by configuring the other display components for the junction box.
Remember: See Defining the Views of a Style. - Specify whether to scale the view block:
If you want to scale the view block using … then… the current annotation scale select Use Annotation Scale. This scales the block to the annotation plot size (specified on the Scale tab of the Drawing Setup dialog box) multiplied by the scale factor for the current annotation scale. Note: The Use Annotation Scale setting for the symbol, not the Annotative property in the selected symbol block definition, determines whether the symbol is annotative (scales according to the annotation scale). Also note that plumbing fittings are always scaled according to the current annotation scale in model space; for more information, see Annotative Objects.a scale factor that you specify select Override Scale, and for each coordinate direction (X, Y, and Z), enter the scale factor to use to scale the block. A value greater than 1 enlarges the block. A value between 0 and 1 shrinks the block.
Note: If you select both this and Use Annotation Scale, the block is scaled using the scale factors you enter, and then the result is multiplied by the scale factor for the current annotation scale.no scale do not select Use Annotation Scale or Override Scale. - If you selected Insert as annotation block, and you want the annotation view block to remain horizontal regardless of the rotation of the object in the drawing, select Keep text horizontal when rotating.
- Add and configure additional views as previously described.
- To remove a view, select it, and click Remove. Danger: Use caution when removing views. If there is no view of the style for the current display representation and view direction in the drawing, all of the objects that use the style will not display when the drawing uses that display representation and view direction.