You can import new linear styles and patterns to use in various ways in symbology and delete styles and patterns that you do not use.
Linear styles and patterns are imported from symbol files. When you import a style or pattern, point styles referenced by that file are also imported. In order to assign a newly imported style or pattern in the Symbology table or heat tracing style in the Tracing table, you must close Smart Electrical Options Manager and re-open it.
You can also delete styles and patterns from the lists of available styles and patterns. However, if a style or pattern is in use in Smart Electrical Options Manager, it cannot be deleted.
New linear styles and patterns are created using the Line Style Editor, which is an add-on to Smart Electrical Catalog Manager. Style resource documents can be any .igr document, .spp, or .rsc line style file that contains styles native to that document. The projectstyles.spp file contains the default symbology. Using Catalog Manager, you can add projectstyles.spp as a resource. When you open a new symbol file using the Line Style Editor, all styles are listed. Styles appearing in bold are currently available to you. You can modify any symbol file that appears (including styles that do not display in bold) and you must save the symbol file. See Using the Smart Line Style Editor.
Using the Smart Electrical Options Manager, you can then import the symbol file.
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If you import a new pattern or style that has the same name as a pattern or style that is already listed on the Linear Patterns dialog, the new information immediately overwrites the older pattern or style.
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As soon as you import linear patterns or styles, the new information is immediately written into the project styles file. There is no option to save the changes later.
You can also import linear styles, which incorporate linear patterns, for heat tracing
symbology. The words heat trace must appear in the name of the style in order for
Smart Electrical Options Manager to import the style.