Graphic Styles

A graphic style can store the current settings of layer, pen and fill colour, arrow-heads, line-type, pen-weight and shadow. A graphic style can also include the settings specific to a class of elements, such as, for example, text font and size, or hatch pattern. When you create or edit the style, you decide which attributes should be included and thus applied to the objects.

Graphic Styles are classified as:

• Basic styles. These are generic styles and can be applied to simple drafting objects, including construction objects, lines, poly-lines, rectangles and polygons, arcs, circles and ellipses and curves: existing basic styles can also be loaded by building element types as predefined graphic properties. Properties that are not supported in a class of objects are ignored (e.g. the fill color property is ignored by lines).
• Element-specific styles, that apply only to specific drafting objects with their own tool settings; these styles are connected to the objects they are created for: when you select a specific style, the corresponding tool and method activate. Specific styles also include all the settings specific to their tool: for example, if you create a text style, it stores the current settings of the Text tool, such as font, size, alignment, etc.