To Define Style Views for Schematic Symbols

1. In the drawing that will contain the style, create an AutoCAD block to represent the symbol in plan view.
2. Create the style, as described in Creating Styles.
3. In the left pane of Style Manager, navigate to the style, select it, and click the Views tab.
   

   Views tab for an existing schematic symbol style

4. Click Generate Isometric Views.
5. In the Generate Isometric Symbol Blocks dialog box, specify the orientation of the symbol in isometric views:

   If you want the symbol…	then…
   to be oriented based on the direction of the schematic line	select In-line symbol.
   to be oriented vertically with respect to the ground regardless of the direction of the schematic line	select Vertical symbol.

6. For Plan block to be used, select the AutoCAD block in the current drawing to use for the Ortho/Plan view.
7. If you want to overwrite existing view blocks with the blocks that will be created, select Use new blocks in the style definition.

   If you do not select this option, the blocks are created in the drawing, and they are available for selection, but they are not automatically assigned to the views of the style.

8. Click OK.

   The software creates the isometric views and the associated view blocks based on the selected block for the orthographic (plan) view.

9. Select a view, and under Scaling, specify how to scale the symbol 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 schematic symbols 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.

10. Configuring the remaining views as previously described.
11. If necessary, you can click Advanced Editor to add (and remove) views in the Views dialog box.
    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.

    You can also use the Views dialog box to specify the display representations and the view directions in which to display the view block, although typically these settings are configured for you when you generate the view blocks.

    Note: To determine the view block to use to display an 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 associated 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 the associated view blocks are used to display the object. If no match is found, the object is not displayed.
12. Click OK twice.