More About Switching a Drawing to Another Standard

You can switch a drawing to another standard when several standards have been defined by an administrator.

This topic provides more information about switching a drawing to another standard.

The following topics are discussed:

Related Topics
Updating the Standard of a Drawing
Setting Standard Parameters
Setting Styles
Switching a Drawing to Another Standard

About the Switch of a Standard File

The parameters of the chosen standard are copied into the drawing and replace the previous parameters. This may have an immediate impact on the appearance of the elements inside the drawing.

Annotations and dimensions

During a standard switch or update, annotations and dimensions are automatically updated (in order to apply the new standard), but not the geometry. To avoid differences between updated annotations and not-updated geometry, we advise you to update first your drawing before any standard switch / update.

Style


  • Note that styles are not affected by this change, i.e. styles in this standard file that are different from the previous standard file will not be re-applied to existing elements. Indeed, styles are applied when creating elements (as they define the default values to be used for creation). If needed, style parameters can be re-applied to an element using the Style toolbar: simply select the element whose style you want to update and select the updated style in the Style toolbar.
  • Note that sheet styles are re-applied to existing sheets when you are switching to another standard.
  • If you modify styles in the standard itself and then update the standard file used by the drawing, the elements which have already been created will NOT be modified (i.e. their default values will remain as previously). Updating the standard will only have an impact on the next elements to be created.