With a default install of Inventor, the Global Style Library is located in the following area:Ĭ:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor \Design Data
This allows consistency across the department by ensuring everyone is working with the same design data. It is highly recommended that all companies with multiple users have a common Design Data folder either in the Vault or on a network location that all Inventor users have access to. If you have only one Style Library, it is commonly referred to as the Global Style Library as it contains all the styles provided by Autodesk® as well as any you create and save to it. xml file controls a ‘Style Type’ such as ‘Dimension’ or ‘Table’. (Figure 2)įigure 2 - Style Manager (Drawing Environment) What's a Style Library?Ī Style Library is a collection of external. Most commonly people manipulate styles in the drawing environment so that is what we will focus on in this article. And from the drawing environment the style manager shows all annotation styles including text, tables, dimensions, etc. From a sheet metal part, the style library shows the lighting, sheet metal rules, Sheet metal Unfold and text styles. From a part, assembly or weldment file the style manager only shows the lighting and text styles. The style editor dialog box appears differently depending on the environment in which you open it. The Style Editor in the ‘Styles and Standards’ Panel of the ‘Manage’ ribbon tab (Figure 1) is used to create, modify and delete styles and Standards. What these means is that all the designers are working with the same styles when creating drawings which ensures consistency across documentation. Standards are used in the drafting environment and define a collection of styles that create the Company/Project “Standard” for drawings. However, they are also used to control things like sheet metal rules, unfold calculations and lighting.
Most commonly people know that Styles are used to control the appearance of annotations, tables, text, etc. Let us start with a brief description of what styles are in the context of inventor. In this guide I hope to explain how Styles are managed by inventor both inside the active document and externally by Style Libraries, and how users can interact with Styles and Standards to improve efficiency in the workplace. But once you understand how styles are managed it becomes a very good way to ensure consistency across your design team. The complexity of managing them seems to be far more involved than required. Styles and Standards are, and always have been, a sticking point for a lot of Inventor users.
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