Styles

Controlling your drawing's aesthetics.

Rayon is also about applying a professional rendering to your drawings : applying colors, line weights, fonts, text size, using hatches and textures, etc.

All this can be controlled in Rayon using styles, located in the property panel.

The Basics of Style

In Rayon, styles document the aspect of all elements (a text box, a line, a surface, etc.). Styles come in 4 different types:

• Shape styles

• Text styles

• Annotation styles

• Wall styles

Styles can be either specific to a given entity, or shared across elements.

Styles can be edited, published, and shared across your drawings.

Let's dive in!

Editing a Style

Styles' settings can be found in the property panel, on the right. Styles can be edited through their different token fields (Fill, Stroke, etc), or swapped/saved through the options of the section header.

Saved styles

At any point, the style of an element can be saved, in order to apply it to multiple elements at once. Clicking on + allows saving styles.

Once saved, a style displays different options...

• Editing

• Swapping

• Detaching

... accessible on and above the style itself.

Editing a saved style allows changing that style across all shapes carrying it. That way, an entire drawing can be redesigned by simply intervening on the few saved styles carried by the drawing's elements.

Swapping allows replacing a saved style by another. That action can be triggered by using the quad button, or by clicking on the style itself.

Detaching allows removing a saved style for the current selection. Elements whose style has been detached will go back to having their own specific styling.

Texture & hatches

For elements carrying a fill using a hatch or a texture, the pattern of each element can be offseted and rotated independently!

To do so, head to the Tiling field, to enable the option. You can then manually use the blue dot to rotate and offset the pattern, or simply input precise offset/rotation values in the tiling panel.

The active style

Each time a creation command gets used, the active style appears in the property panel; that style will be assigned to the things you draw with the current command.

Style libraries & publishing

At any point, you can find all the styles contained in your drawing in the left-side style panel.

• My styles lists all the styles you have in your model

• Libraries gives you access to extensive libraries

Styles listed under My styles can be curated, using the panel's options; actions such as...

• Editing/renaming any given style

• Deleting unused styles

• Creating new styles by clicking on +

More importantly, this list can be turned into a library, by getting published.

• Publishing can be found in the Share modal (upper right corner), under the Publish styles tab.

• A library can be refreshed at any time by hitting Refresh in the modal.

• Published libraries are accessible by users within your organization.

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