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Use Format painter

In opened models, you can copy the formats of a selected item to another item or to several other items. This way, you can transfer the format of one object to all other objects and need not to transfer it to each object individually.

  1. Select the model item whose format you want to copy.

  2. Click the Start tab bar if not already selected.

  3. Click Format painter Format painter.

    • If you want to copy the format to one item: click the relevant item.

    • If you want to copy the format to more items: use the mouse to draw a border around the relevant items.

    • You can also press the Ctrl key and click the required items one after the other.

The format of the selected items is adjusted accordingly.

In opened models, you can copy the formats of a selected item to another item or to several other items. This depends on whether the format has been copied to one or more items, and between which items it has been copied.

  • Fill color, including transparency and gradient

  • Line style, weight, and color

  • Shadow

  • Active information of objects and connections

  • Connection direction arrow (if the source and target connections are of the same connection type)

You can copy the formatting between the following items:

  • Object occurrences

  • Connection occurrences

  • Attribute occurrences

  • Graphic objects, for example, circle, square, etc.

  • Free-form texts and placed model attributes

  • Groupings (as the target, with the formats being copied to all items in the grouping as if the items were selected individually)

Effects on placed attributes:

  • Placement and sorting

  • Font formats and individual characters as well as paragraph formatting for attribute definitions if the formatting includes the entire text.

  • Alignment

  • With attribute name and As a symbol setting

Effects on free-form texts, placed model attributes, and attribute occurrences:

  • Font formats

  • Alignment

  • As a comment setting

  • Character formatting setting

  • General character formatting.

The format is not copied for the following element and properties

  • Model properties, such as background color, grid, and print settings are not copied for models.

  • In terms of attribute placements, the text area size is not copied.

  • The size is not copied for objects, free-form text/placed model attributes/attribute occurrences in order not to destroy the layout of models.