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- posted 01/31/07 by Ove Cervin Sample Line Group Properties
- Hi all,
This week I'm actually feeling the spring getting closer to Sweden. It's not pitch black when I go to the office in the morning. It's only really dark ;-)
But that's NOT a problem as I have good headlights on my car - which by the way ofcourse is a V...o, I'm a Swedish citizen!!! (joke - I have another car as well, equally good, and not Swedish...)
As I have noticed a lot of users are struggling to change the apperance of objects on screen, once they have created those, I want to highlight some here.
A lot of objects have Properties with accessible dialogs for change of apperance. This example will be on a set of cross sections.
Below you see some cross sections with a Section View Style and a Section Style.
Here is one of the cross sections a bit larger.
If I have all those in my drawing and suddenly realize I want another Style on them I don't have to erase and re- create them.
Go to the Toolspace and find your Site and corresponding Alignment. In my sample here it's all around "Alignment- 1".
Choose Properties on the Sample Line Group you want to change.
In the following dialog you see there are several tabs at the top.
As I mentioned I wanted to change the Section Style for my cross sections. Pick the tab "Sections". This will list all your sections in the bottom of the view.
If you then click on the header of the column named "Name" the program will sort by name.
This gives you a possibility to mark all Corridor Sections at one time. (Shift-select)
Mine (Swedish - sorry...) are namned "Korridor (1), which is the same as "Corridor (1)"
After selecting those you click on one of the Style names in the column "Style". Mine have the name "Tvärsektion", which is the same as "Cross section".
Clicking that name will bring you the dialog used to select a new Code Set Style for a new apperance of the cross sections.
After that, still in the Sample Line Group Properties dialog, I want to change the Section View Style as well.
Go to the tab "Section Views" and do a similar procedure. Select which section views you want change. Click on one of the names under "Style". Select a new Section view style.
As you can see these two changes gave me a Section style with more Labels and a Section view style with a grid.
Until next time - take care!
// Ove C