Drawing view style workflow

Use the following workflow to create drawing view styles for different drawing view types. This process incorporates all of the elements of the drawing view style:

Step 1.

On the Name tab, create a new Style name based on the existing style that is the best match for the content and formatting that you want.

Step 2.

Use the top portion of the Caption tab, under Drawing View, to select a drawing view Type, and then define the content that you want to appear in the caption when the drawing view is placed. You should do this for each type of drawing view for which you want to define unique caption content within a single drawing view style. Another way to use this is to define unique caption content for a single drawing view type and to assign it to its own style.

Use the Show check box to control whether the caption is displayed by default for the currently selected drawing view type.

Step 3.

For section, auxiliary, and detail views, use the View Annotation portion of the Caption tab to select the view annotation Type--Cutting Plane, Viewing Plane, or Detail Envelope--and then define the content that you want to appear in the caption when that view annotation is defined on a source view. For an example, see the Help topic, Define a view annotation caption.

Use the Show check box to control whether the view annotation caption is displayed by default for the currently selected view annotation type.

Step 4.

In the Properties portion of the Caption tab, verify that the boxes contain the property text strings, plain text, and punctuation that you want to show when the corresponding property text code, such as %AS, is resolved in the caption.

For each of the Properties boxes that you reference in the drawing view caption or the view annotation caption, you can use the Show check box to control whether it is displayed in the primary or secondary caption if that caption is shown.

Step 5.

Use the Caption Format tab to specify caption font, font size, color, and a horizontal divider between primary and secondary captions.

Note:

To learn how to do steps 1 through 5, and to see examples, see Define drawing view captions using property text.

Step 6.

Use the Caption options on the Annotation tab (Solid Edge Options dialog box) to automate the display of sheet number, view scale, and rotation angle in drawing views.

Step 7.

(Optional) Use the Specify Annotation Letters dialog box to define annotation labels, for example, A, B, C and A1, B1, C1, and to choose the order in which you want the labels to be assigned.

Step 8.

Use the Drawing View Style tab of the Solid Edge Options dialog box to map drawing view styles to drawing views.

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