Display Themes
Display themes use color, fills, and hatches to present data that is not typically visible in a drawing. For example, you
can specify that all 2-hour fire-rated walls appear with a red fill. The display theme legend activates the display theme
in the drawing and identifies the meaning of the different colors, fills, or hatches used in the theme.
The data for display theme legends is collected from the property set data attached to the objects or object styles. Styles
for display themes are specified in the Style Manager under Documentation Objects.
Process Overview: Creating Display Themes
Typically, manual properties of an object—such as a wall’s fire rating or a door’s manufacturer—are not visible in a
drawing. Display themes let you incorporate such non-graphic data in your drawing by using certain colors, fills, or
hatches to highlight objects that meet criteria (theme rules) you establish in a display theme style. For example, you
might define a property named Function for room objects, and then set up a theme rule specifying that rooms with a
Function value equal to “storage” will be displayed with a solid yellow fill.
You activate a display theme in a drawing by using a display theme tool to insert a display theme legend, which explains
the meaning of color, fills, or hatches specified in the theme.
If you use display theme styles provided with AutoCAD Architecture 2008, the property set definitions and property
data formats for the style are already created for you. You can begin the process of creating a display theme from Step
4.
Create and implement a display theme by following these basic steps:
Step 1:
Create property data formats (or modify existing ones as necessary) to specify formats for properties you want
to include in the theme. For more information, see “
Creating a Property Data Format
” on page 2059.
These formats determine how data is displayed in the display theme legend.
Step 2:
Create or modify property set definitions for objects or object styles incorporating formats from Step 1. For
more information, see “
Creating a Property Set Definition
” on page 2079.
Step 3:
Create or modify a display theme style. For more information, see “
Creating a Display Theme Style
” on page
2109.
The legend is a key that incorporates the property set definitions from Step 2 to specify which visual indicator
will be applied to which objects in the drawing and what the content of the display theme legend will be.
Step 4:
Attach property set data to the objects and object styles to be included in your display theme. For more
information, see “
Attaching Property Set Data to Objects
” on page 2062.
Step 5:
Activate the display theme by adding the display theme legend to the drawing or right-click an existing legend.
For more information, see “
Adding a Display Theme to a Drawing
” on page 2106.
Creating and Editing Display Themes
When you use a display theme in a drawing, you can show data that is not typically visible. For example, you can use
different hatches to designate different functional areas within a building. Typically, manual properties of an object—such
as a wall’s fire rating or a door’s manufacturer—are not visible in a drawing. Display themes let you incorporate such
non-graphic data in your drawing by using certain colors, fills, or hatches to highlight objects that meet criteria (theme
rules) you establish in a display theme style. For example, you might define a property named Function for room
objects, and then set up a theme rule specifying that rooms with a Function value equal to “storage” will be displayed
with a solid yellow fill.
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Summary of Contents for 00128-051462-9310 - AUTOCAD 2008 COMM UPG FRM 2005 DVD
Page 1: ...AutoCAD Architecture 2008 User s Guide 2007 ...
Page 4: ...1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
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Page 41: ...Workflow and User Interface 1 1 ...
Page 42: ...2 Chapter 1 Workflow and User Interface ...
Page 146: ...106 Chapter 3 Content Browser ...
Page 164: ...124 Chapter 4 Creating and Saving Drawings ...
Page 370: ...330 Chapter 6 Drawing Management ...
Page 440: ...400 Chapter 8 Drawing Compare ...
Page 528: ...488 Chapter 10 Display System ...
Page 540: ...500 Chapter 11 Style Manager ...
Page 612: ...572 Chapter 13 Content Creation Guidelines ...
Page 613: ...Conceptual Design 2 573 ...
Page 614: ...574 Chapter 14 Conceptual Design ...
Page 678: ...638 Chapter 16 ObjectViewer ...
Page 683: ...Designing with Architectural Objects 3 643 ...
Page 684: ...644 Chapter 18 Designing with Architectural Objects ...
Page 788: ...748 Chapter 18 Walls ...
Page 942: ...902 Chapter 19 Curtain Walls ...
Page 1042: ...1002 Chapter 21 AEC Polygons ...
Page 1052: ...Changing a door width 1012 Chapter 22 Doors ...
Page 1106: ...Changing a window width 1066 Chapter 23 Windows ...
Page 1172: ...1132 Chapter 24 Openings ...
Page 1226: ...Using grips to change the flight width of a spiral stair run 1186 Chapter 25 Stairs ...
Page 1368: ...Using the Angle grip to edit slab slope 1328 Chapter 28 Slabs and Roof Slabs ...
Page 1491: ...Design Utilities 4 1451 ...
Page 1492: ...1452 Chapter 30 Design Utilities ...
Page 1536: ...1496 Chapter 31 Layout Curves and Grids ...
Page 1564: ...1524 Chapter 32 Grids ...
Page 1611: ...Documentation 5 1571 ...
Page 1612: ...1572 Chapter 36 Documentation ...
Page 1706: ...Stretching a surface opening Moving a surface opening 1666 Chapter 36 Spaces ...
Page 1710: ...Offsetting the edge of a window opening on a freeform space surface 1670 Chapter 36 Spaces ...
Page 1956: ...1916 Chapter 42 Fields ...
Page 2035: ...Properties of a detail callout The Properties of a Callout Tool 1995 ...
Page 2060: ...2020 Chapter 45 Callouts ...
Page 2170: ...2130 Chapter 47 AEC Content and DesignCenter ...
Page 2171: ...Other Utilities 6 2131 ...
Page 2172: ...2132 Chapter 48 Other Utilities ...
Page 2182: ...2142 Chapter 51 Reference AEC Objects ...
Page 2212: ...2172 Chapter 52 Customizing and Adding New Content for Detail Components ...
Page 2217: ...AutoCAD Architecture 2008 Menus 54 2177 ...
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