The Drawing Style Manager

The Drawing Style Manager is a complex tool that contains a variety of predefined drawing styles for the automatic creation of general arrangement drawings, shop drawings for single parts and assemblies and much more. You can also define individual drawing styles.

• About the Drawing Style Manager
  Explore an overview of working with the Drawing Style Manager.
• Drawing Style Manager User Interface
  The Drawing Style Manager user interface reflects the structure of a drawing style.
• Create a New Drawing Style Category
  Learn the steps of creating a new drawing style category.
• Use an Existing Drawing Style
  
• Copy or Delete a Drawing Style
  Learn the steps of copying or removing a drawing style.
• Import or Export a Drawing Style
  
• Edit a Drawing Style
  You can edit styles in the User category, which duplicates the entire Advance category. After editing the User category, the original styles from the Advance category can be reused.
• Example: Configure a Drawing Style
  Learn how to make a generic configuration to a drawing with basic changes to its overall settings and how to modify the way objects are detailed and labeled.
• Drawing Style Properties
  A drawing style is composed of one or several views. A view has properties, objects, dimensions and labels. The drawing style also has properties accessible on the properties panel.
• View Properties
  Learn about the different properties of a view and how you can configure them.
• Add an Isometric View to a Main Part Drawing
  You can add a 3D view of an assembly to a main part drawing in order to create a better image of the detailed element.
• Necessary Views Configuration
  Learn how to use the necessary views engine to control the views that appear on a drawing according to the filters set in the Necessary Views configuration dialog.
• Model Objects
  You can assign functions to the model objects either by applying construction rules or interactively.
• Model Objects Management
  Use the component panel to select model objects. The tree panel displays all the model objects grouped by object and their management functions.
• Model Objects Properties
  Model objects act as filters for objects from the 3D model. A model object is defined by the object type (e.g. Beam), model role (e.g. Column) and an additional filter (e.g. with holes).
• Labeling Strategies
  A labeling rule contains settings for the content, the layout and the label arrangement.
• Dimension Request
  A dimension request defines the dimensioned objects in a dimension chain.
• List of Abbreviations for Dimension Strategies
  Explore the list of dimension abbreviations that you can use in configuring your dimension strategies.
• Drawing Processes
  Learn how to use drawing processes to automatically create drawings using appropriate drawing styles and arrange the created details within a drawing (DWG) or across several drawings.

Parent topic: Create and Manage Drawings

Related Concepts

• Labeling Strategies
• Drawing Prototypes
• The Quick Documents Palettes

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