Drawing-Specific Parameters

When you open a drawing in the working window, the layers that were active when the drawing was saved will become active. However, the default element parameters (fonts, pens, line and hatch fonts, dimensions etc.) of the Vertex software are activated for the drawing elements.

If necessary, you can enable the drawing-specific parameters for the drawing elements. In this case, information about the drawing settings used in the drawing, drawing element properties, and their visibility are also saved in the drawing. When you import a drawing into Vertex in a different format, the drawing's original line types and colors are retained. You can add elements to the drawing and then export the file. The parameters of the added elements are also saved in the file.

You can enable the drawing-specific parameters by setting the keyword set.use.picparams= 1 in the user/SETUP file.

Parameter data saved in a drawing file includes the following:

• Layers
• Layer groups
• Fonts
• Line width
• Line type and style
• Hatch Type
• Resolution
• Grid
• Part number circle size
• Dimension arrow size
• Dimension line width, etc.

Restoring Default Parameters for an Open Drawing
Default Parameters