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If the software finds no other additional blocks or parts of the same type as the one you are
converting, you can click Finish to convert the object. Otherwise, click Next.
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If you want to convert the additional blocks or parts to devices that have the same properties,
select Convert all additional references to the selected block in the drawing, and click Finish.
Using the settings that you specified as well as the AutoCAD block or the view block currently
assigned to the MvBlock or MvPart, the software creates a device style and a new device. However,
the device style contains additional settings that you might want to configure. For example,
you might want to select a wire cleanup method other than the default method; you might also
want to make changes to the default
. For information on configuring device
styles, see
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on page 367
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on page 603
TIP
After you have configured the device and the device style with the appropriate settings, you can
create a tool from the device by dragging it to a tool palette. For more information, see
on page 790.
Converting Device Styles to Blocks
You can convert a set of device styles to their individual components: the style settings and the AutoCAD
®
blocks used by the style views. The output of the conversion process includes:
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a set of drawings that contain the AutoCAD blocks. The process creates one drawing per view block per
style, so each drawing contains a single block definition.
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a device conversion script (Custom Content File or CCF file) that contains the style settings. The script
contains not only the values for the style settings, but also the file path locations of the output drawings
that contain the AutoCAD blocks.
Typically, you use this process when you have a set of existing device styles that you want to customize.
You convert the device styles to their individual components, customize the components (the blocks and
the style settings in the script), and then use the modified script to convert the modified blocks to new
device styles.
620 | Chapter 13 Customizing Style-Based Content
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