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The Line Style Editor allows you to create and modify various styles and patterns through a user-friendly interface. You can create custom styles based on existing ones, modify the properties of existing styles, or delete styles that are not used or referenced by others.

Linear patterns and styles are defined by a series of strokes, called a stroke sequence. Each stroke appears either as a dash or a gap; however, point styles may be added to the stroke when necessary. The strokes, when used together in a stroke sequence, are placed in locations indicated by a stroke index, a number indicating the order in which the individual strokes appear in the sequence.

If you are using a Workshare environment, all patterns and styles should not be created at a satellite site.

The Line Style Editor appears as a frame in the SmartSketch Drawing Editor window. The Line Style Editor toolbar appears at the top of the frame. A tree window displays line styles defined for the active document or within any applicable resource files, and a preview window at the bottom of the frame provides a graphic representation of selected styles. To toggle on/off the Line Style Editor in SmartSketch, use the Tools > Add-Ins command to open the Add-In Manager dialog box and then select or clear the check box beside Line Style Editor. Alternatively, right-click anywhere in the toolbar area, and on the shortcut menu, and select or clear Line Style Editor to toggle the display.

SHARED Tip If the Line Style Editor is not installed in Catalog Manager, follow the steps in the topic Install the Line Style Editor; if the Line Style Editor is installed but not displayed, right-click anywhere in the toolbar area and on the shortcut menu, click Line Style Editor.

Using the Line Style Editor, you can create the following custom tools, which are saved within the active symbol (.sym) file.

Point Styles

Holds graphical images used periodically throughout a line or as a terminator at the beginning or end of a line. Examples of common point styles might include arrowheads used at one end of a line or symbols drawn over a line to indicate what the line represents.

Linear Patterns

Adds point styles, if applicable, to a series of dashes and gaps (strokes). When defining a linear pattern, you set both, the order in which dashes, gaps, and point styles appear, and the position of the point styles relative to the stroke.

Linear Styles

Provides point styles and linear patterns in a format that can be used in drawings. When you define a linear style, you provide width and color to linear patterns so they can be applied to linear geometry.