In Drawings, we frequently need to deviate from the Style settings only for a particular annotation, or a few of them. For example:
- You need to change the color of a few particular annotations, but you want everything else about them to adhere to the default Style.
- The Style is for dimension text alignment to always be Horizontal, but you need to make a particular vertical dimension use Aligned in order to save space.
- The dimension Style uses an arrow-head terminator, but you need to use obliques (tick marks) for a set of tightly-packed dimensions.
Right now, in order to achieve these customizations, we have to create a unique Style for every combination of Style settings used by every annotation in our Drawings. And we have to keep up with applying changes to the "base" Style to every copy we make. This is tedious, time-consuming, error-prone, and results in cluttered Styles lists.
We actually already can override some Style attributes, such as precision, arrowhead type, and tolerance method, but all of these (except precision) have to be done for each dimension one at a time. And this is only a very small sample of the Style options available for dimensions and other notes.
Please implement the ability to override more Style options for particular annotations, without having to create a new Style for each combination of settings.
