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When a style is turned off, drawing objects are
displayed without styles.
Select or clear the check
box next to the style
Turn a style on or off
name in the Display
Manager.
Use scale thresholds to change drawing layer
styles as you zoom in or out, for example, turn
In the Display Manager,
click Tools ➤ Show
Create a new scale
threshold
text off as you zoom out. Close the lock icon
on the Status Bar to link scale and style.
NOTE This functionality applies to drawing
layers only. Feature layers use scale ranges. For
more information, see Defining Scale Ranges
(page 643).
Thresholds. Click the thin
down arrow next to the
Threshold list, and then
click Duplicate. Enter the
new threshold and click
OK.
Layers are drawn from the bottom up. Objects
in the layer at the top of the Display Manager
In the Display Manager,
click Draw Order so it is
Change the display order
of layers
are drawn last and appear on top of other ob-active and drag the layer
up or down. jects. If an object is a member of more than
one layer, it is drawn based on the highest
layer to which it belongs. The Draw Order view
is useful for defining a display order that differs
from the layer organization in the Display
Manager or the legend.
If a layer is turned off, objects from that layer
are hidden.
Clear the check box next
to the layer name
Hide objects in a layer
The legend lists the styles used in the map. See
Adding a Legend (page 1116).
In the Display Manager,
click Tools ➤ Create Le-
gend.
Add a legend
Reloads the entire drawing, including rereading
attribute data, reevaluating expressions for
Right-click the Display
Manager. Click Update.
Update the drawing
styles and themes, and requerying layers. To
update a single layer, right-click the layer. Click
Update.
You sometimes must refresh the items in the
Display Manager. This operation does not affect
the drawing.
On the command line,
enter mapwsrefresh.
Refresh the Display Man-
ager
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