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Section View Styles

Where can I find this command?
Keyboard:
vaSectionViewStyles
Icon:
Section View Styles right click [left click]
Documentation toolbar:
VisualARQ Documentation Tools Toolbar
Menu:
VisualARQ > 2D Views > Section View Styles
Shortcut key:
Select a section view object > (Alt, Shift or Ctrl) + double left click

Section view styles define the attributes of section views.

After running the vaSectionViewStyles command, the Section view Style Manager dialog box will appear. All section view styles are created and edited from this dialog.

Section View Styles
Section view Style Manager dialog box

New Section view style:

You can create new styles and duplicate existing ones from the Section View Style Manager dialog box.

Delete a Section view style:

You can delete section view styles from the Section view Style Manager dialog box. You can only delete those styles that are not being used by any existing Section view in the model.

General style editing
You can use the vaSectionViewStyles command or, alternatively,
  • Use the vaStyleProperties command, then select a Section view and press Enter, or
  • Right click on vaStyleProperties (right click), then select a Section view and press Enter, or
  • Select a Section view and open the context menu by pressing the right mouse button for a while then select Section View > Style Properties, or
  • Press Alt, Shift or Ctrl then double click on a Section view object.
The changes applied to a style are applied to all elements with that style.

Edit a Section view style:

Select the section view style from the top left panel, and edit its different parameters from the tabs that appear in the right panel.

Attributes

Attributes define the features of each section view style for display and print purposes. The valid attributes are:

  • Section View: Layer and Visibility
  • Section View text: Text style, Dimension style, Color, Linetype, Line print width and Line print color.
  • Sectioned objects in a Section View: Pattern, Pattern scale, Pattern angle and Pattern color
Section Views
Different section view styles

Parameters

In this tab you can create custom parameters by style and assign values by style.

These values can be overwritten by object, from the Parameters section Parameters icon , in the Rhino Properties panel Rhino properties icon.