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the Wall Styles Properties dialog on the Display Properties tab in the Display
Representation column, some of the representation have way too many
categories. And they are un named so I cant be sure what component i'm
changing. Is there a way to purge and rename the rest? Thanks.
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<David_W._Koch> wrote in messageI
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would strongly recommend NOT turning off the By Material display of your Wall
components. Prior to the introduction of Material Definitions (in 2004, if
memory serves), to get each Wall component to display the way it "should" for
the particular material that component represented in a specific Wall, each
Wall Style had style-level overrides set. All well and fine, if you really
like carefully recording the display settings for each type of wall component
you use and then carefully applying those settings over and over again. Then
the real fun starts, after you have a hundred or so Wall Styles set up, and
someone comes along and says that the way your brick is shown does not meet
the company standard and you have to go and edit every Wall Style that has a
brick component and change the override settings for all of the Display
Representations that need to be updated. It is far easier to use Material
Definitions, where you do still have to set up display overrides for each
Material Definition, but once you get Brick right, you can simply pick it from
a list to assign it to the brick components in your Wall Styles and can rest
assured that all brick components will display the same way. And when the
inevitable request to modify the display comes, you can edit one Material
Definition and have those changes propogate to all Wall Styles. In the posts
above, you do not mention what issues you have with the out-of-the-box
settings, and what end result you would prefer to have. While I would highly
recommend making use of the out-of-the-box settings, even at the cost of
changing your standard, if you absolutely must change the way various
components display, if you use Material Definitions to control the display,
after you edit them to bend the display of Walls to your will, you will be
able to use any of the out-of-the-box Wall Styles and see them display "your"
way, and may have a somewhat easier time migrating to future
releases.
From the discussion above, I don't see an answer to the original question: in the Wall Properties...Display Properties...Layer/Color/Linetype Tab, is it possible to purge most of the 20 Boundary and 20 Hatch entries? If so, what would the steps be to do this?
Dan