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Section Styles

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

Section styles define the attributes of sections (section cutting lines).

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

Section Styles
Section styles dialog

New section style:

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

Delete a section style:

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

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

Edit a section style:

Select the section 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 style for display and print purposes. The valid attributes are:

  • Layer, Visibility, Text style, Dimension style, Color, Linetype, Line print width, Line print color, Pattern, Pattern scale, Pattern angle and Pattern color.

Geometry

There are different shapes available for the section arrow:

  1. None
  2. Triangular
  3. Arrow
  4. Ribbon (vertical and horizontal)
  5. Line
  6. Circle
  7. Block
Section Arrow types
Section Arrow Types

In addition you can control the Size, Offset and Filled option for each arrow type. The Mirrored option is only available for mark types created from blocks.

Mark

In this tab you can edit how the section reference text will appear at the ends of section lines.

By default, the text follows this syntax %<referenceText>%, where the referenceText points to the property field Reference of the section object.

  • Start text: text at the start of the section line object.
  • End text: text at the end of the section line object.

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.