Line Symbol Subline Management

The linetype symbol is essentially a composite linetype, that is, a linetype composed of multiple sublines. The linetype symbol is made by setting the Virtual-real Mode of the subline, the type of the subline, and the style of the subline through Add Subline, so as to construct the required linetype symbol.

The Subline Management area of the Linear Symbol Editor can effectively manage the sublines that form the linear symbol, as shown in the following figure.

When you create a new linetype symbol (New Linetype Symbol, see: Create a new linetype symbol ), when you open a Linear Symbol Editor, The subline list in the Subline Management area is empty, and you need to Add Subline to make line symbols step by step; When editing an existing linetype symbol in a Line Symbol Library (to edit a linetype symbol, see: Edit a linetype symbol ), when opening a Linear Symbol Editor, The subline list in the Subline Management area displays all the sublines that make up the linetype symbol.

Each item in the subline list corresponds to a subline.

Create a new subline

In Linear Symbol Editor, the first step to create a new line type symbol is to create a new subline. Click the Add button on the Subline Management toolbar to add a subline. The default type of the added subline is dart (system line type).

You can double-click the subline or click the Drop-down Button on the right to pop up a list of subline types. You can select a new subline type for the subline.

Delete the child line

  1. In the subline list in the Subline Management area, select the subline to be deleted. You can use the Shift key and Ctrl key to select multiple sublines at the same time;
  2. Click the Delete button on the Subline Management toolbar to delete the selected subline. Deleted sublines are not recoverable, so delete sublines with caution.

Adjust the order of the sublines

In the Subline Management area, the order of the sublines in the subline list is the order in which the corresponding sublines in the linetype symbol are stacked. The topmost subline in the subline list is also the topmost line in the linetype symbol; the bottommost subline in the subline list is also the bottommost line in the linetype symbol. Use the Top, Move Up, Move Down, and Bottom buttons on the Subline Management toolbar to adjust the order of the sublines in the subline list, and thus adjust the hierarchical order of the sublines in the linetype symbol.

  1. In the subline list in the Subline Management area, select the subline to be moved. You can use the Shift key and Ctrl key to select multiple sublines at the same time;
  2. If you click the Top button on the Subline Management toolbar, the selected subline is moved to the top. If multiple sublines are selected, they are moved to the top of all other sublines, while maintaining the relative order of the selected sublines.

    If you click the Move Up button on the Subline Management toolbar, the selected subline will be moved to the top by one level, that is, it will be moved to the front of the subline before the selected subline. While maintaining the relative order of the selected sublines.

    If you click the Move Down button on the Subline Management toolbar, the selected subline will be moved to the bottom by one level, that is, it will be moved to the back of the selected subline. If multiple sublines are selected, they will be moved to the bottom by one level. While maintaining the relative order of the selected sublines.

    If you click the Bottom button on the Subline Management toolbar, the selected subline is moved to the bottom. If multiple sublines are selected, they are moved to the back of all other sublines, while maintaining the relative order of the selected sublines.

Append a line type symbol

The sublines in a linetype symbol can not only be obtained by creating a new one, but also be added to the existing linetype symbol as the content of the sublines constituting the current linetype symbol.

  1. Click the Append Symbol button on the Subline Management toolbar;
  2. The Linear Selector dialog pops up, which displays a Line Symbol Library as a Symbol Library Manager. By default, the Line Symbol Library in the Linear Selector dialog box is the current Line Symbol Library. Select the line symbol to be imported in the symbol list, and use the Ctrl key to select multiple symbols at the same time;

    Because the Linear Selector dialog displays the symbol library as a symbol manager, In the Linear Selector dialog box, you can perform operations similar to those of Symbol Library Management. Here, you can select linetype symbols to be imported by adding another Line Symbol Library file through the functions under the Symbol Library Management menu in the Linear Selector dialog.

  3. After selecting the linetype symbol to be appended in the Linear Selector dialog box, click the OK button in the dialog box. The selected linetype symbol is appended to the child line list of the current linetype, and the appended content is all the child lines of the selected linetype symbol, not the linetype symbol itself. Therefore, the user can further edit the appended content.

Sets the child line type

The Linear Symbol Editor provides a wide range of subline types that provide symbol creation. You can set the subline type in two ways.

  1. In the Subline Management area, from the list of sublines, select a subline for which you want to set a subline type;
  2. Click the Linetype button on the Subline Management toolbar to change the subline selected in the subline list into a drop-down list. The drop-down list lists various subline types that can be selected. Select the desired type to set the selected subline as the selected type.

Another way to set the child line type:

  1. In the list of sublines in the Subline Management area, select a subline for which you want to set a subline type, and then double-click the selected subline;
  2. In the sub-line list, the selected sub-line becomes a drop-down list. Click the Drop-down Button on the right. The drop-down list that pops up lists the various sub-line types that can be selected. Select the required type to set the selected sub-line as the selected type.

Set child line properties

Here, the attributes of the sub-line are mainly the attributes of the style and style of the sub-line, such as the color of the sub-line, the line width, the offset of the sub-line, and the Line cap style of the sub-line.

  1. In the subline list in the Subline Management area, select the subline whose property is to be set. You can use the Shift key and Ctrl key to select multiple sublines at the same time. You can perform batch Property Settings on multiple sublines;
  2. Click the Properties button on the Subline Management toolbar to pop up the Properties dialog box, where you can set the sub-line properties. See: Set the style of the child line .

  3. When Style Settings is complete, click the OK button on the Properties dialog.