Create and define line styles

Using line styles

To create and define a new line style

1. Open the Define, manage line styles, area styles, drawing types dialog box.

   How to access the dialog box

   • On the Tools menu, click Defaults and then Line styles, area styles, drawing types.

     Or:

     Click Select, Set Layers(How), select the Format Definition tab and click Manage line styles, area styles, drawing types.

     

     Activate Select, Set Layers in one of the following ways

     • Menu bar: Format

     • Keyboard: Ctrl+4

     • Toolbar: Format

   Note: The You are modifying the line styles in the office folder message indicates that you are about to change the settings of the office standard.

2. In the Line style settings area, click the New, manage... button.
3. Click New.
4. Enter the ID number. You can enter numbers between 1 and 255 as well as 511 and 32,767; numbers between 256 and 510 are reserved for Allplan line styles.
5. Enter a name for the new line style.
6. Select a group and click OK. If there is no group with the name entered, it will be created.

   By default, the new line style is given the pen=1, line=1 and color=1 settings for all the scale ranges/drawing types:

7. Click in the Scale 1:x or Drawing type column and enter the scale or drawing type for which these settings are to apply.
8. Click an entry in the Pen, Line and Color columns and select a setting in each column.

   Note: You can also use the As construction lines setting for scale ranges and drawing types. Elements drawn on this layer are then displayed using the line and color of construction lines. However, these elements are not ‘real’ construction lines and they are not selected when you apply the construction lines filter.

   

   Elements in construction line format are drawing aids. They are not included in printouts you create using the Layout module. When printing straight from the print preview, you can specify whether construction lines are to appear in printouts. The line type and color of construction lines can be changed in the Options. You can use Construction Line on/off on the Format toolbar to specify whether elements are drawn as construction lines. Use Show/Hide to globally show or hide elements drawn as construction lines.