Most users are familiar with the PROPERTYPAINTER. This clever, and handy tool helps everyone to change Properties of entities, with a couple of Mouse Clicks. Brilliant! But what seems to escape most users, is that this tool is actually very powerful, and has more options. Let’s check them:
1 - In your toolbar, Click
(or Type PROPERTYPAINTER in your command line ,and hit Enter)
2 – Choose your Source Entity
3 – Now, before you specify the destination entities, take a look at your command window:
4 – Type S in your command line, and hit Enter.
5 – A command dialog box will appear:
As you see, you can actually select what properties you want to pass on to the destination entities, giving you more options to a command, that usually, most people uses to change Layers of entities.
You can copy and paste the following basic properties between all entities:
- Layer
- LineColor
- LineStyle
- LineScale
- LineWeight
- Thickness
- PrintStyle
You can copy and paste these special properties between specific types of entities:
- Dimension - DimensionStyle
- Text - TextStyle
- Table - TableStyle
- Hatch - Hatch pattern and Hatch settings
- PolyLine - Width and LineStyle generation properties
- Viewport - Includes snap, grid, display locking, scale (standard or custom), shade plot, and coordinate symbol icon settings of a Sheet Viewport
Selecting these options applies the properties of the source entity to destination entities of the applicable type. For example, if the source entity is Text, the TextStyle is applied to all Text entities in the selected destination entities.
Access
Command: PropertyPainter
Menu: Modify > Property Painter
For more information about this command and command options, refer to the DraftSight Help files.
