If you’re learning to use Composer you’ll find the benefit of ‘Styles’ as a way to quickly set up multiple properties for geometry and collaborative actors. This also helps with creating consistency from actor to actor and document to document. Once your ‘Styles’ are established you would want to ‘protected’ them from unintentional changes. This can be achieved by modifying a value in each ‘Style’ setting file (*.smgStyleSet).
Step 01) Find where your ‘Styles’ are stored – Composer File menu, Preferences, Data Paths, find the Profiles path for where your ‘Styles’ are stored.
Default location is:
(3DVIA Composer) ”C:\Users\{user name}\Documents\3DVIAComposer\User\Profiles”
(SolidWorks Composer) “C:\Users\{user name}\Documents\SolidWorks Composer\User\Profiles”
Step 02) Open one of your ‘Style’ files with notepad or equivalent *.txt program.
(Note: ‘Style’ files have a .smgStyleSet extension)
Step 03) Search for a value of “Profile.Modifiable Value” (quotes removed)
Step 04) Change <Profile.Modifiable Value=”1″/> by change the “1″ to “0″ <Profile.Modifiable Value=”0″/>
Again a value of 1 means that the style can be changed, a value of 0 means that the style will be locked and read only.
This tip will work for 3DVIA Composer and SolidWorks Composer.
The ‘Style’ settings files are written in xml and can also be modified with an xml editor.
