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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- 1 Introducing Autodesk Inventor
- 2 Creating Sketches
- 3 Working with Sketched Features
- 4 Creating and Editing Placed Features
- 5 Creating and Editing Work Features
- 6 Using Projects to Organize Data
- 7 Managing Assemblies
- 8 Placing, Moving, and Constraining Components
- 9 Creating Assemblies
- 10 Analyzing Assemblies
- 11 Using Design Accelerator
- 12 Setting Up Drawings
- 13 Creating Drawing Views
- 14 Annotating Drawings
- Annotation Tools
- Using Styles to Format Annotations
- Working with Tables
- Creating Dimensions In Drawings
- Controlling Dimension Styles
- Placing Center Marks and Centerlines
- Adding Notes and Leader Text
- Using Hole and Thread Notes
- Working with Title Blocks
- Working with Dimensions and Annotations
- Printing Drawing Sheets
- Plotting Multiple Sheets
- Tips for Annotating Drawings
- 15 Using Content Center
- 16 Autodesk Inventor Utilities
- Index
All styles associated with a drafting standard are stored in a style library. You
can customize the style library and link it to a project file (.ipj). All files
included in the project then use the same styles for formatting.
If you use style libraries on projects, share styles among designers. Documents
are uniformly formatted, and updates are easy. When you update the main
style definition in the library, all documents that use the style library can
update their formatting.
NOTE Usually, when you create or edit a style in a document, it remains in the
document. If you want to include the style in the style library, click Format ➤
Save Styles to Style Library. When you save a style to the library, you replace the
master definition of the style with the new version. Use caution because it can
affect other documents that reference the style library and use the style for
formatting.
Use Styles In Templates
Legacy documents were formatted using styles stored in template files. You
can still use templates with styles and reference a style library as well. To avoid
making your file size larger than necessary, to use Format ➤ Purge Styles to
remove unused styles from the document. Only styles that are not in use can
be purged, so you do not risk losing formatting you need.
Some styles reference other styles as substyles. One example is the dimension
style, which uses the text style to format dimension text. If you change a text
style, it affects a dimension style that references the text style. If you purge a
style that references another style, confirm if you also want to purge the
referenced style.
Styles and templates each have their uses and advantages:
■ Templates are a good place to store information that stays the same, such
as title blocks, borders, default views, sheet sizes, and so on.
■ Style libraries are a good way to control formatting. If a style is stored in
a template, it is only available to future documents created with the
template, so previously created documents must be manually updated.
With style libraries, a style definition is available in any document simply
by refreshing the library.
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