Configure the Company Standard Styles using the Styles Editor

The Styles and Standards Editor offers you a central source for managing styles. Styles control the default behavior of how information, such as balloons, dimensions, layers, line entities, symbols, tables, revision blocks, and so on is displayed.

Use the Styles and Standards Editor to set the active standard for a drawing document and to set lighting styles for part and assembly documents. After customizing the Styles Editor to conform to the needs of you company, remove any styles that are not used.

Attention: Put the style library on a network as a read-only file so the whole project team can share the same formatting standards, lighting, and so on. When changes are made to a style that all users must consume, save the changes to the Style Library (for example, changing the precision of a dimension style). Changes to templates (potentially multiple templates) are not necessarily needed. Once saved, document styles are updated directly from the library.

Configure the project file to point to the styles library on the network. In the Project Editor, set the properties to read-only to prevent designers from changing the styles and standards of the company.

Some workflow tips:.

• Create the Text and Layer styles first.
• Modify the remaining object styles as needed.
• Customize the Object Default Style to meet the needs of your company.
• Set your company standard to use your Object Default Style.

For additional information on CAD Manager workflows, including where to go for technical support, access the CAD and IT Managers' resource .