The Themes Palettes

Use the Themes palettes to analyze feature properties, point clouds, and terrain.

The elements in the Themes palettes are:

1. View Controls — Display all themes, a specific theme, or the active theme.

2. Tool Strip — These options affect individual themes.

   Add New Theme

   Creates a theme based on the feature class and property you specify. See

   • To theme features
   • To theme terrain by elevation, slope, or aspect
   • To theme point clouds

   Edit Selected Theme

   Opens the Theme Properties dialog box, where you can change the parameters for the selected theme.

   Duplicate Selected Theme

   Adds a copy of the selected theme to the theme list. The copy is inactive but selected. To rename it, select through the default name and type a different one.

   Delete Selected Themes

   Removes all selected themes from the list. To replace them, create new ones.

   Refresh Selected Themes

   Redisplays the current parameters for any selected theme, and redisplays the model with those parameters.

   Move Selected Theme Up/Down

   The position of the theme in the list determines its priority. If two themes affect the same feature class, the top one is interpreted first.

3. Theme Area — Each theme displays a row for each rule, and the color assigned to that rule. The values associated with each rule appear to the right of the color bar. For example, if the first rule defines roads with a single forward lane, its value is 1-2, because it applies to roads that have at least one lane but not more than two. Double-click a color bar to change its color.

4. Cross-Theme Tools — These tools affect all themes in the list.

   Expand All/Collapse All

   Reduces all themes to their titles only, or expands them to show their rules.

   Import Theme

   Imports previously exported themes stored in XML files.

   Export Themes

   Saves all themes in the list to an XML file.

   Update All

   Redisplays the current parameters for all themes in the list, and redisplays the model with those parameters.