Standardising dimension styles/text sizes etc
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Hi all,
Just wondering if anyone could tell me how I can set defaults on Layout so that I can always use the desired dimension style, font etc?
I am currently having to change every dimension and it's becoming a pain in the b*tt!
Ta!
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Can't you set up your own style in a document and save it as a template? After all that's what we do in SU as well!
Also,you can save a set of settings into a scrapbook and use that as a "sample tool" to set the style of anything at the beginning of a new document and those settings will "stick" throughout several sessions spent in that document.
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Thanks Gai, Sorry, I perhaps should have mentioned that I've tried saving as a template and it keeps reverting it back to 'default'.
I'm perhaps doing something wrong, but all I do is set the drawing to how I want it, saved it as a template and then open it from the 'welcome' screen...
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True, very true. I've just tried.
But the scrapbook method works. If you make a document with all the pieces you want to use (like a certain style of dimension tool) and save it as a scrapbook, once you start a new document, just click on your saved scrapbook and start using the tool. It will get the style from the scrapbook.
Yet a template should definitely "remember" the settings IMO, too.
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Cheers Gai, not really ventured near to Scrapbook yet but will check it out. Thanks very much for your help.
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Have caution with the scrapbook, it can work great and can REALLY be a pain in the arse.
Do not use big files as for me it slowed layout down tremendously...plus there have been some bugs..
aloha
red -
Wait - you should be able to make this work: select the arrow and line style you want, then try to create a new dimension with that style to confirm this works. Switch to another tool and then back to dimension tool to draw a new one to make sure it stuck and that you did things in the right order. Then save as template. Tool defaults are written out to styleManager.xml (zipped in the LayOut document), so if you set them correctly, they should be saved.
Secondly, if you do put things in a scrapbook, they're easy to sample and use. Red ran into issues with large image files that were linked, not embedded, into a scrapbook, and then putting those images into another document, and not getting a local copy of that image. We're looking at how to reproduce this issue, but this should be unrelated to this because (a) dimensions are tiny in comparison to large images, and (b) you're sampling their style, not embedding them in your page, i.e. I'd draw my dimensions, select them all, type "s" and sample from the scrapbook to set their style.
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You can also check out our templates as an example - they all have a set font, arrow head and dimension style per template family.
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