topic Re: HOW TO CHANGE SECTION VIEW FONT IN IDW? in Inventor Forum

HOW TO CHANGE SECTION VIEW FONT IN IDW?

toznal — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 01:44:33 GMT

Hi there!

I would like to change section view font and color.

But It's not to select color and text style.

I'm going to attach screen image.

please let me know how to change view text color and font.

Thanks a lot.

Re: HOW TO CHANGE SECTION VIEW FONT IN IDW?

karthur1 — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 02:05:44 GMT

To change the text "locally" you can right-click on it and chose "Edit text style" or "edit View annotation Style". When the next window comes up, change it to the style you want.

This will only change the style in the current drawing. If you want this change to be your new "standard", then you have to write this change to your styles library.

Kirk

Re: HOW TO CHANGE SECTION VIEW FONT IN IDW?

toznal — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 02:17:18 GMT

Thank you for response.

I'm trying to change that style in style library.

but It doesn't work to change.

please check attached files.

Thanks!

Re: HOW TO CHANGE SECTION VIEW FONT IN IDW?

karthur1 — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 02:43:13 GMT

Sorry, but I dont see any attached files.

If you are wanting to save your changes back to the library, then make your edits and then go to the Manage tab. Select the "Save" on the styles and standards panel. This will allow you to write this to the standard if it is write enabled.

Note that any idw that has been created prior to this will still show the "old" style. you will have to "update" the style to see this change.

Kirk

Re: HOW TO CHANGE SECTION VIEW FONT IN IDW?

karthur1 — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 02:48:39 GMT

If your styles library is "read-only" then this can be changed by editing your project (ipj). Granted you have read/write access to the drive where your library is stored, edit your ipj file and change this in the ipj.

Re: HOW TO CHANGE SECTION VIEW FONT IN IDW?

salariua — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 08:16:01 GMT

I have created a screencast to show what @karthur1 means.

I don't recommend that you change the text of the View Annotation because that will affect other elements like labels. Maybe you need to create a new text style and set that in your view annotation.

Play with this and test which one fits best with you.

Once you finish editing the styles you need to save the style to Design Data library. Check towards the end of the video where I am showing you how to do that.

Not on my video but you need to open your template and use Update from the Manage tab, Styles and Standards section.

Here is the screencast: