Bom Index Style

This command allows you to create/modify index styles, which will then be used to create BOM indexes.

Index styles are the configuration of a BOM index (displayed properties, units, ...).

Creation stages / Use:

Select the Tools > Styles > Index style... command from the drop-down menu.

Enter a Name to this new index style.
Check Current style: This style will be proposed by default when creating a new index.
Select the Base style (the root style allows to recover the settings of an existing style).

The modification of an index style used as the basic style by another style will automatically cause the modification of the later.

Contents:

Allows to enter information and texts to display as upper text and lower text of the bom index. Check Upper text and/or lower and click on the button to edit the text.

RichText are entered in blue frames. The upper text is written in the lower part of the upper frame, the lower text in the upper part of the lower frame.

Example of upper text:
Example of lower text:

The hook line of the index is between these 2 frames.

Format:

Allows to define the decoration and the color of the index.

Decoration:

Allows to frame the text. Available decorations are: None, Underlined, Framed, Circled.

Margin:

Allows to adjust a distance between the text and its frame.

Radial Mode:

If this option is activated, the arrow origine is on the center of the text enclosing box and it is limited by its frame.

Color:

To use another color then the default one, select the color button then select the color to use. To delete a color, use the icon.

Layer:

Allows to select the default layer for index.

Extremity:

Extremity:

Allows to change the extremity type if it is connected to an edge or a face, and also their dimensions.

Local attributes:

Allows to change the decoration, the leader and the projection line thickness of the index as well as their color. The mask from the leader and projection line can also be managed.

The properties display unit corresponds to the document unit.

These units can be accessed via the options tree (to display it, select Options in the View folder of the TopSolid button).

Modifications / Additional information:

It is possible to modify an existing bom index style via the entities tree. Open the Styles > Index Styles folder. Edit a style by right-clicking to modify it.
It is possible to copy/paste a style, in the same document, or in a new document of the same type. If this one is based on a style, it will also be pasted into the new document.