Table styles

Changing the appearance of tables

You can change the appearance of Solid Edge tables by selecting a different table style, modifying a table style, or creating a custom table style.

Some of the ways you can change table appearance include:

To learn how you can change the appearance of individual elements of a table—titles, columns, headers, and data cells—without changing the table style, see the help topic, Formatting columns and data cells.

Using the Styles command to create and modify table styles

To create or modify a table style, you begin with the Styles command and the Style dialog box, where you set the Style Type to Table. Then you select the New button to create a new table style or the Modify button to change an existing table style.

To learn how to customize table styles, see the Help topic, Create or modify a table style.

Changing table line properties

The Lines tab of the Table Style dialog box contains property lists that control the display of the table border and grid lines. A preview pane shows the result of each change you make.

To learn how: Specify the appearance of table lines.

Changing table text properties

A subset of the Table style is the Text style.

You change the appearance of the text in a table by modifying a text style, such as the Normal style, or by creating a custom text style with a new name.

Example:

The text in a parts list table is too small to read. Modify a text style and then update the table on the drawing.

To make the text larger, modify the Normal style by changing the value in the Font size box on the Paragraph tab of the Modify Text Box Style dialog box.

Example:

You can create a new text style with different font properties—such as size, color, language, alignment, and spacing—and assign it a meaningful name, such as Hole Table Text. Any text style you create can be selected and applied to these text elements in the table style: table titles, column headers, and column data.

To apply different text styles to different table elements, use the Text tab of the Table Style dialog box.

To learn how: Specify the appearance of table text.

Creating unique table styles for different tables

You can create your own, fully customized table styles in the Draft environment and make them available for many different table applications. For example, custom table styles can be applied to parts lists, pipe lists, hole tables, bend tables, drawing notes, revision tables, and the dimension table used by families of assemblies.

One way to do this by creating a unique table style for each type of table you use, and then applying that style every time you place a table of that type on a drawing.

Example:

For parts lists, you want to use different grid line and border colors, and a different font color.

Solution
  • Create a unique table style for the Table style type.

  • To differentiate tables based on text styles, modify the text style associated with the table style using the Paragraph tab of the Modify Text Box Style dialog box.

  • To differentiate tables based on line styles, modify the table style using the Lines tab of the Modify Table Style dialog box.

Example
Step 1.

Create a unique table style named Parts List.

Step 2.

Within the new Parts List table style, change the color of the table horizontal and vertical grid lines and the table border using the Lines tab of the Table Style dialog box.

Step 3.

Create a new text style with different font properties and assign it a meaningful name. In this case, create a text style named Parts List Text and choose a different font color on the Paragraph tab of the Text Box dialog box.

Step 4.

Within the Parts List table style, select and apply the Parts List Text style to one or more of these table text elements: table titles, column headers, and column data.

Step 5.

Use the Table style list on the command bar, or the General tab of the Table Properties dialog box, to select and apply the new Parts List table style every time you place a parts list on a drawing.

To learn about applying styles to other Solid Edge elements, see the Help topic, Applying formats with styles.

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