Setting Class Properties

Once created, the classes display on the Classes tab of the Organization dialog box, where various properties can be set and edited.

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To edit classes:

  1. Select Tools > Organization. Alternatively, click the Classes button from the View bar.

  2. The Organization dialog box opens.

  3. Select the Classes tab.

  4. A list of the current classes in the drawing displays. Depending on which view option is selected at the top of the dialog box, either details or visibilities of the classes display. The visibility of classes in the drawing area and the active class can be changed in Details view. The visibility of classes in viewports and in saved views can be changed in Visibilities view (see Setting Visibilities in the Organization Dialog Box).

  5. To change other class properties, select one or more classes and click Edit to open the Edit Class(es) dialog box.

  6. Click OK to return to the Organization dialog box. If objects in an edited class already exist in the drawing, and the class is set to use attributes “at creation,” you are prompted to specify how to apply the changes to the existing objects.

  7. Click OK from the Organization dialog box to save the changes.

If multiple classes are simultaneously selected for editing, and some or all of the attribute values are different for the selected classes, the editing fields for those values indicate that the value is unknown. When the OK button is clicked, the currently defined settings shown are applied to all of the selected classes. Any information with an unknown setting is not applied.

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Displaying Classes in Hierarchical Order

Setting Class Attributes

The Attributes Palette

Resource Libraries

 

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