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Setting Read and Write Permissions to Styles and Standards
Library in Autodesk Inventor Professional
Someone is also asking, what is a style and style library? OK! Let's do it this way. I know
that most designers pass through AutoCAD before they venture into Inventor
Professional. In fact, we at Autodesk Authorized Training Centers (ATCs) will not teach
someone Inventor Professional unless you've passed through at least AutoCAD 2D. Back
to styles and style library. Inventor styles are like AutoCAD styles: Text styles,
Dimension styles, Multileader styles, Point styles, etc. Styles are just a collection of
settings that controls the behavior and appearance of objects. So in Inventor, you can
control the color and material of models; the lighting of the scenes; the properties of
balloons, center marks, dimensions, hatches, layers, part lists, leaders of your drawing
file through styles. Cable & Harness and Pipe & Piping assemblies require styles to
define the characteristics of the runs. A style library contains definitions for individual
style types.
So why are Styles and Style Libraries set at read only by default? The simply answer to
this that it prevents novices from tampering with the Inventor style and style libraries. It
also shows you how important it is for you not to tamper with the styles until you really
know what you are doing! It's like the superuser account in Linux :). So in the
networked-office environment, only your CAD administrator might be able to change
the permission status.
By now someone is already becoming impatient. Well, don't forget that the patient dog
eats the fattest bone. OK, let’s unlock the door to reading and writing to Inventor styles
and style libraries.
SETTING READ / WRITE PERMISSION TO STYLES AND STYLE LIBRARIES
By now, I'm sure that you already know about Inventor Project Files and that it's
advisable to store related Inventor files inside the same project. Setting read/ write
permission for Inventor style and style library is done per project through the Projects
dialog box. Let us follow these steps outlined below:
1. Close any opened document in Inventor. When all documents have been
closed you will see only three tabs on the ribbon - Getting Started, Tools, and
Vault.

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2. Go to Getting Started tab > Launch panel > Projects.
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5. On the Projects dialog box, in the project list area, click on the name of the
project you want to set read and write permission for. Note that in the project
properties area (below), the Use Style Library property is set at Read Only.

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6. In the project properties area, right click on Use Style Library. On the
context menu, click Yes. This will set the Style Library permission to "Read and
Write" for the selected project.
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8. Click Save > Apply to save changes to the project file.
9. Ensure that the project is set current by double clicking on the project
name. A tick will be placed before the name. Click Done to close the dialog box.
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12. Now open or create a new document (part, assembly, drawing or
presentation) under the same project. Go to Manage tab > Styles and Standard
panel > Styles Editor.
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14. The style and style libraries are now set at read / write.

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CONCLUSION
I hope you found the tutorial useful. I will love to get comments about my writing style
and content. You can email viandianabasi.udonkang@gmail.com. Cheers.