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Style Manager The Style Manager is a utility that provides a central location in AutoCAD Architecture where you can view and work with styles in drawings or from intranet sites. Styles Styles are sets of parameters that determine the appearance or function of objects in AutoCAD Architecture. For example, a door style determines the type of door represented in a drawing, such as single or double, bi-fold or hinged. The door style also determines the shape of the door, such as rectangular or arched, as well as default frame dimensions, standard sizes, and display properties. You assign a style to all instances of an object that are to have the same characteristics. For example, you could assign one door style to all office doors in a building and another door style to all fire doors in the building. Objects in the software that use styles include two-dimensional (2D) sections and elevations, AEC polygons, curtain walls, curtain wall units, doors, endcaps, mass elements, openings, railings, roof slab edges, roof slabs, schedule tables, slab edges, slabs, spaces, stairs, structural members, wall modifiers, walls, window assemblies, and windows. Using the Style Manager, you can also manage layer key styles, schedule data formats, and definitions for cleanup groups, mask blocks, multi-view blocks, profiles, and property sets. NOTE To view layer key styles in the Style Manager, run a Layer Management command (Layer Manager, Layer Key Styles, or Layer Key Overrides) before you display the Style Manager. Using the Style Manager The Style Manager allows you to readily create, customize, and share styles with other users. In the Style Manager, you can perform the following tasks: ■ Access styles from open drawings and intranet sites ■ Drag styles onto a palette to create tools ■ Set up new drawings and templates by copying styles from other drawings or templates ■ Sort and view the styles in your drawings and templates by drawing or by style type ■ Preview an object with a selected style ■ Create and edit styles ■ Delete unused styles from drawings and templates ■ Send styles to other AutoCAD Architecture users by email Standard and Predefined Styles Most of the objects in AutoCAD Architecture have a default standard style. Catalogs provided with the software contain additional predefined styles that you can copy to tool palettes to use in your drawings. You can also access the styles for bar joists, curtain walls, doors, members, railings, roof slabs, slabs, spaces, stairs, walls, and windows, as well as property set definitions and schedule tables from drawings located in the \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Autodesk\ACD-A 2008\enu\Styles\Imperial or Metric folder. For more information about specifying the location of files at installation, see "Install AutoCAD Architecture 2008" in the AutoCAD Architecture 2008 Installation Guide. Creating Tools from Styles You can create object tools by dragging a style from the Style Manager to a tool palette. When you drag a style onto a tool palette, a reference is created that associates the tool to the style. The reference location can be the current drawing, another drawing, or a remote location. If you edit the style in the Style Manager, the tool automatically uses the updated style. If an existing tool references a style from another drawing, the style is not added to the current drawing until you add an object of that style to the drawing. The reference location is used only if the current drawing has been saved. 490 | Chapter 11 Style Manager