Alibre Design

Chapter 12 - DrawingsUsing Dimension Styles in TemplatesSaving your dimension styles to your template allows you to reuse the same styleswithout having to create them again each time you start a new drawing.Note: We recommend that you give all of your styles a unique name, even if they arein different templates. This will prevent conflicts from arising if you choose to use morethan one template in the same drawing file.If you do use the same style names for styles in different templates, you may see thefollowing dialog when you attempt to use both templates in the same drawing:This dialog is telling you that two styles with the same name can not exist in a singledrawing file. The dialog in the above example has found three different styles in thesecond template brought in to a drawing that have the same name as styles in the firsttemplate used in the drawing.You must choose one of the options:These options only apply to the styles that have the same name. All other styles areunaffected. In addition, these options do not modify the template itself, only theproperties of the styles in this drawing file. The original templates remain unchanged.Keep Existing Styles - This option will keep the properties of the styles that arealready in the drawing.367