Coming to grips with the DV annotation styles, this is my current understanding of this and I am looking for feedback to know if I'm on the right track...
Not sure if the defaulting to the active Dataset's dgnlib is a bug or a faulty setup...Overall seems to work OK, I find that changes to the component models and/or to the styles library need restart before taking effect.
The Detailing Symbol Styles dialog box provide a management interface for a library of styles.
These styles rely on:
- a set of annotation components located in the file DetailingSymbolStyles.dgnlib – this file name and location are controlled by MS_DETAILINGSYMBOLS_CELLLIST.
- a style library within the drawing seed file DrawingSeed_Architectural.dgnlib . Each style within the library functions as a set of symbology overrides applicable to each annotation component in the DetailingSymbolStyles.dgnlib. These components are also grouped to form the cells that will be used by the various DV tools and DV processing.
The default location for the library is the active dataset’s dgnlib folder DrawingSeed_Architectural.dgnlib which is also the DV Drawing Seed file.
If ATF_DRAWINGSEED_DGNLIBLIST and MS_DRAWINGSEED_LIBLIST specify a new location/name, the library still defaults to the active dataset’s location.
Either renaming or removing DrawingSeed_Architectural.dgnlib from the active dataset’s dgnlib folder will render the new location defined in ATF_DRAWINGSEED_DGNLIBLIST and MS_DRAWINGSEED_LIBLIST active in terms of the Detailing Symbol Styles library.
A Detailing Symbol Style may be assigned to each view in the DV drawing seed either through the View Attributes – View Seed Options /General tab or through the View properties/General tab. This then provides for a complete seed-based DV workflow (including the DG items annotation via drawing rules, won't talk about that in this post).
When a view is processed into a drawing and when using callout tools, the library symbols cell components and their symbology are used automatically. The symbology is set either from the Detailing Symbol Style library settings or from a local copy of the library styles. Any local copy can either be different or re-synchronized at any time with the library item.