Inventor Drawing - Style Override

[karl.hosking]

Upon editing text in an Inventor drawing via "Format Text", if any typographical emphasis (bold, italics, underline) or other font changes are modified on the text, instantly that text is no longer tied to the attributed style ("Note Text (ISO)" for example). Inventor however still reports that the edited text is indeed actively referring to a style, when in fact it's not.

I propose a simple tick box, that when any typographical emphasis is engaged on text that a tick-box called "Style Override" engages automatically, which clearly tells the user/editor that the active style is being overridden.

If these "Format Text" manual changes need to be removed at a later date, all that's required is for this tick-box to be de-selected, and the text will again return to its designated style. To further assist this particular workflow, for multiple text entries that need to return to their original style, they could all be selected and then from a right click menu "Style Override" could be disengaged, returning all selected text to their original style.

Are there any further thoughts on this idea? Good, bad, ugly?

[GNR88]

For the penifit of anyone who might look at this, When would a text box refering to a style thats been over ridden be an issue what problem is this causing other then simply not being a true reflection of the text box's current state.

[karl.hosking]

This idea was sparked when a I was working with a CAD manager who was updating some old styles via the Styles & Standards editor. Upon updating the annotation styles and then reviewing the drawings that consume those styles, it was then found that many of the annotations had been manually adjusted, preventing them from updating to the new style. This idea was then thought of, to select all annotations on a drawing then deselect the "Style Override" setting for all of them in one hit, returning them all back to the original (and updated) global style (where then, if needed they could be pushed back into italics/bold).