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Symbol Styles
Access: Open this function from the following location:
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The Style section of any symbol dialog (such as Dimension, Geometric Tolerance, Surface Roughness, Marking, etc.).
Create and use styles for any drafting symbol under the Textual, Symbols and GD&T Symbol Menus (such as Dimension, Geometrical Tolerance, Surface Roughness, Marking, etc.). A style retains all the parameters and attributes of a symbol. Each style can contain information about different symbols. Each dimension type is a different symbol.
Each drafting symbol holds a lot of parameters that control its data and visibility. The Symbol Styles allows you to save any set of parameters for any symbol and reuse them at will, saving tedious definition work and time.
In each symbol dialog a Style section enables you to select the desired style from a dropdown menu, or save the parameters currently defined in the symbol to an existing or new style. Note that the option As Preference is always there and allows you to work with the parameters and definitions set in the preference, essentially eliminating the symbol style functionality.
When you save a style file, a save dialog opens up allowing you to save a new style file or overwrite an existing one, in case you want to update the parameters of a specific symbol type. Note that each style file can hold the parameters of many symbol types.
Whenever you perform a save, you are only saving the parameters of the symbol style you have used when clicking the Save Style button. If you have chosen an existing symbol file, the system will check if the specific symbol type you are saving already exists in it, and will ask you if you wish to overwrite it if it does. Note that each dimension type is considered a different symbol type (Linear dimensions, Radial dimensions, etc.).
The example save dialog below was invoked by clicking the Save Style button in the Linear Dimension dialog; note that the dialog header indicates which kind of symbol is being saved, in this case a Linear Dimension.
The system-defined location for Drafting Style files (*.DSL) is in the following folder:
...\ProgramData\Cimatron\Cimatron\2026.0\Data\templates\Drafting_Styles
...\ProgramData\3D Systems\Cimatron\2026.0\Data\templates\Drafting_Styles
A Preference option enables you to set the default style you want to use (including the option As Preference which means you don’t want to use styles) and the location at which the style files will be saved. This is important as the dropdown menu will look for style files in that location.
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