An overview on Organize Styles (basic concepts)

The application comes with several predefined style sets designed to meet ISO, JIS, GB, KS, and ANSI standards for dimension and text styles. A style configured during the program installation is the default loaded style. You can create and save format and style sets for different types of models/drawings or to adhere to user's choice of internal drafting standards and conventions, and reactivate any of them later as the current style.

An Organize Styles tree frame enables you:

to access the Dimension and Text categories (These categories can also be accessed from Options/Properties command and/or Properties command on dimension/text entity).
to create styles
to modify styles
to specialize the existing styles
to manage the libraries

You can change any style property locally using the Properties command available on the context menu. By clicking on this command, the Entity Properties window pops up, that enables you to control appearance, assign a particular style, modify parameters of both Dimension and Text entities locally.
All properties which are inherited from a style are displayed in blue in the Entity Properties dialog box. Whenever you select an entity and modify the properties inherited from a style, the property name will be displayed in bold.
Unlike Options/Properties, modified properties does not apply to subsequent created entities.
Options drop-down list of the Entity Properties dialog box has three different functionalities with respect to locally changed parameters:

Library Management

In Organize Styles user can manage style through content buttons and context menu opened with a right-click on an item. The edit style frame displays all the styles in Loaded and Library (subdivided into User and the System (read-only)) style lists.

	Loaded	Only the styles that are already loaded can be used in a drawing/model. Initially the current style is the one configured during the program installation. You have a provision to create new style from the loaded style. Once new style is created it is set as current and automatically stored in the User library. If you try to employ a library style, it'll be at first loaded and then set as current. If you load a Library style which is already loaded in Loaded list, a dialog box will be displayed to enable you to confirm or discard the overwriting of the current settings. Click Yes to confirm or click No to keep the existing document settings. Current style cannot be removed from the loaded list. A style loaded and applied to some entities of the current document must not be removed.
	Style not aligned	User interface displays this icon when a style is not aligned to the User library copy i.e., style is in not saved in library after making modifications library copy is removed while existing in Loaded style list

	User	If you want to use the same style for other drawings, you have to save it in the User library, using the Save in library .
	System (read-only)	Pre-defined standard styles available at the installation time, such as ISO, ANSI, GB, JIS, and KS styles are grouped under System (read-only) library. These system styles cannot be removed and over-written. If a system style is loaded and modified, it can save the changes also in the User library copy.