Setting and arranging own style icons

About style icon sets

Depending on the type of drawing you are working on, you see a different set of style icons on the program's toolbar. A style icon is a shortcut to a style and makes it easier to apply that style on objects.

A EngView installation comes with a fixed set of style icon sets: Default, Counterplates, Male die, Female die, and Varnish. Each set appears automatically in the respective drawing type.

Default style icons

By default, each style icon set has its own set of style icons, which correspond to the styles most often used while working in the respective type of drawing.

The style icons for the Default style set. The available icons are for the styles Cutting, Creasing, Perforating, and Cut-Creasing.

Customizing the style icon sets

Depending on your personal working routine, in each style set you may need to use styles that are different from the default ones. That is why you can set your own style icons to easily reach on the toolbar while working. The setting and arrangement of these style icons takes place in the System Configuration Utility.

To set and arrange custom style icons

  1. Click the START button, browse to the EngView Systems program group, and then click System Configuration Utility.

The EngView System Configuration Utility dialog box appears.

  1. Click the EVPDD (version) tab.
  1. Click the Style Shortcuts button.

The Customize Style Shortcuts dialog box appears.

  1. In Button style sets, select the style set that you want to modify.
  2. In Button styles, select the style that you want to remove from the style set, and then click Remove.
  3. Repeat Step 5 for all the styles that you want to remove.
  4. In Available styles, select the style that you want to appear on the style set, and then click Add.
  5. Repeat Step 7 for all the styles that you want to appear on the style set.
  6. (Optional) After you have removed the unnecessary and added the new styles to the style set, use the buttons Move Up and Move Down to rearrange the styles as you need them to appear in the style set.
  7. To complete the procedure, click OK.
  8. To adopt the changes, in the System Configuration Utility dialog box, click OK.

NOTE: If you carry out the above procedure while EngView is open, the changes will take effect after you restart the program.