About the Switch of a Standard
File
The parameters of the chosen standard are copied into the drawing and
they replace the previous parameters. This may have an immediate impact on the
appearance of the elements inside the drawing.
Annotations and Dimensions
During a standard switch or update, annotations and
dimensions are automatically updated (to apply the new standard), but not the
geometry. To avoid differences between updated annotations and not-updated
geometry, it is recommended to update the drawing before any standard
switch/update.
Note:
The modification of a tolerance format is only applied to documents
created after the tolerance format modification.
Style
- Styles are not
affected by this change, that is styles modified in the updated standard file
is not re-applied to existing elements. Indeed, styles are applied when
creating elements (as they define the default values to be used for creation).
If needed, new style parameters can be re-applied to an element using the
Style. For this,
select the element whose style you want to update and select the updated style
in the
Object
Properties
panel, under
Style.
- Note that sheet styles are re-applied to existing sheets when you
are switching to another standard.
- If you modify styles in the standard itself and then update the
standard file used by the drawing, the elements which have already been
created are not modified (that is their default values remain
as they were previously). Updating the standard only has an impact on the
elements to be created.