Displaying symbols in drawings

You can set the way the program displays style symbols in new projects, projects from resizable designs, and projects originating from imported drawings. This means that each time you create a new project, a project from a resizable design or an imported drawing, the program will display the symbols associated with styles it detects in the new/imported drawing in the way of your choice.

To set the default display of style symbols in new and imported drawings

IMPORTANT: The procedure that follows applies to how already-associated symbols are displayed in new projects, projects from resizable designs or imported drawings. If you need to change how style symbols are displayed in a specific drawing, you can edit the display of symbols in the specific drawing.

  1. Ensure that the visualization of style symbols is enabled: In the graphical area, right-click, point to Show, and then click Style Symbols.
  2. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the New Drawing Defaults tab.
  1. In the tab, in Draw Style Symbols and Style Symbols Scale, set the properties that you want.
Draw Style Symbols
  • Smart draw: The symbols appear as they were drawn if the scaling factor is 1. See a description of this case (opens in a separate window).
  • Draw for print: (This setting has meaning only for the setting up of print jobs.) The style symbols respond to zooming. See a description of this case (opens in a separate window).
Style Symbols Scale The scale factor that EngView will apply to reproduce the style symbols on the screen. Example: If a style symbol is 16x16 pixels, the scale factor 2 will increase its on-screen representation two times.

Displaying styles symbols in imported projects

EngView will display style-associated symbols also in imported drawings. In this case, EngView uses an association filter that contains the most commonly used styles. If any symbols are associated to these styles and you have set the symbols to appear (see Step 1 above), you will see the symbols on the screen. Consider the following example with an imported DXF file.

Normally, in DXF files cutting objects are blue and all creasing objects are red. The importing filter applies the Cutting style to all blue objects; the Creasing style to the red objects. If symbols are associated to the Cutting and the Creasing styles, these will be displayed on the screen. The imported file would look something like this (the Cutting style symbol is a wedge; the Creasing style symbol is a double circle):

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