Apply and use object styles

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in this video, you'll learn how to specify the object styles.

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To control the graphic display of elements for the entire project.

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You'll also learn how to apply a material using the object styles

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to access the object styles

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on the manage tab

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in the settings panel,

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click object styles

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in the object styles dialog.

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You can control the graphic display of entire categories of elements

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for the entire project.

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So really what should happen is the object

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style should be specified for the project template

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That way, when you create a new project, the object styles will already be specified

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in the object styles dialog there are multiple tabs

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on the model objects tab. You can control the graphic display of model categories

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as you scroll through the list.

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You can see all of the model categories.

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I'll scroll down two walls

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and you can see the walls category

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and you can specify the projection line weight

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and the cut line weight

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as well as the line colour,

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the line pattern

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and material

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if necessary.

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Additionally, you can expand a category

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and see the subcategories

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and you can even create new subcategories for

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a category by clicking new under modify subcategories.

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Just for this example,

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I'm going to change the walls color

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to green

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and then I'll click OK to close each of the dialogues

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and now in the floor plan view we can see all of the walls are green.

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Additionally, if I open up another floor plan view

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we can see that the walls are green here as well

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because once again the object styles control the

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graphic display of categories for the entire project.

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I'll go back to the object styles dialog

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and we can see that there are additional tabs

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on the annotation objects tab.

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You can control the graphic display for annotation categories,

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such as tags and text notes,

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so on and so forth.

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Similarly on the analytical model objects tab, you can control

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the analytical model categories

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and on the imported objects tab,

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you can see any layers for cad files that have been imported or linked

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if needed.

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You can always select one of the categories that appears

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on the imported objects tab and you can simply delete it

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to remove it from the project.

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I'll go back to the model objects tab and I'll scroll down to the furniture category

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if you would like. You can apply a material here in the object styles dialog.

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If you click in the material field

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and then click the more button,

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it'll open the material browser

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and then you can simply scroll through the list

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and find the material.

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Or you can type in the search field

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and find the material that you want to use.

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So for example,

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I'll select one of the materials that appeared when I searched for wood

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will use the cherry wood material. And click OK.

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And now that material will be used for the furniture category

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in the entire project.

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I'll click Okay.

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And next I will open

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the visibility graphic overrides dialog

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and here you can

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specify

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the graphic settings that will override the object styles for this specific view.

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For example, if I scroll down to the walls category

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and will change the cut line color

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to magenta

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and click OK to close each dialogue.

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Now you can see that

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the walls have been overridden for this specific view,

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but if I go back to the ground floor view,

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you can see that they are still green,

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which is what is specified in the object styles dialog.

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Whereas everything we overwrote here on the second floor view

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has been overridden for just this view.

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The walls that are green are not cut by the cut plane in this view.