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Style painter

Use the Style Painter tool to apply the display properties of one object to another object. The tool applies color and transparency intelligently from one object type to a different object type.

You can select a component in the Structure treeDisplay in the Structure panel that shows you each of the objects in your design. You can expand or collapse the nodes of the tree to view the objects. You can rename objects, create, modify, replace, and delete objects, as well as work with components. as the target for the Style Painter tool. The color and transparency are applied to all solids in a component. You cannot select a component as the source object, and only the solids in the target component are changed.

In the example below, the red part is semi-transparent and has blue edges. The style from the red block was painted to the green block and to the note. The color, transparency, and edge color of the red block was copied to the green block. Only the color of the red block was copied to the note, because a note doesn't have transparency or edge color.

To paint display properties from one object to another

1. Click Style Painter in the Clipboard group on the Design2D or 3D model that contains at least one top-level component. tab.

2. Select the source object that you want to copy the display properties from.

3. Select the target object that you want to copy the display properties to.

   The Select TargetThe object you want to cut, when using the Combine tool to split a solid or surface. tool guide automatically becomes active so you can paint the properties of the source to as many targets as you like by simply clicking on them.

   If you can't select the object you want, such as an edge, try scrolling the mouse wheel over the object.

4. If you want to paint properties from a different source object, click the Select Source tool guide or hold Ctrl and select a different source object.

   The Select TargetThe object you want to cut, when using the Combine tool to split a solid or surface. tool guide automatically becomes active again so you can click on as many targets as you want.