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- posted 11/21/07 by Jack Strongitharm Changing Styles
- Little tip here that you may have missed in 2008 to date.
In the UK and Ireland Country kit I had made some styles to make it easier to understand your design, one being an alignment style that shows the elements in different colours.
However when it comes to plotting a drawing you probably don’t want fancy colours, just a black pen with thickness and a linetype.
For this I have a plotting style, which is also bylayer for xref purposes etc.
So when it comes to plotting your drawing you may have quite a number of objects that you need to change the style and the last thing you want to do is click on each of them to change the style.
Luckily there is a way, like everything!
In the prospector, if you click on the alignment object, the alignments are listed in the table below.
You can select the alignment list by holding the left mouse and windowing them in and the other conventions of holding shift to pick the first and last and or ctrl and picking them individually.
Then right click on the style tab and you will see ‘edit’. Hit that and you will get to choose a style.
Hey presto all changed.
This method applies to all Civil objects, so is a real easy way to get organised.
Jack Strongitharm