Attributes Palette

The Attributes palette helps you make changes to the appearance of objects in your VectorWorks drawings, or to determine which graphic characteristics have already been applied. There are pulldown menus for the color and pattern Fill options, including solids, and pulldown menus for the Pen options.

You can use the Attributes palette with all 2D and 3D VectorWorks objects with one exception which is text. The only text characteristics you can change with the Attributes palette are color and fill pattern. All other text attributes are controlled by individual menu commands, all of which are listed under the Text menu item.

FILL

In VectorWorks, you can fill objects with either a solid color, a hatch, or a fill pattern. You also can set the object fill default to “None” if you want to create transparent objects with no fill pattern.

PEN

In VectorWorks, you can set your pen so that objects are outlined in a solid, dashed, or pattern line of any thickness. And, depending on the number of colors supported by your monitor, you can pick pen colors from a palette of up to 256 colors. (VectorWorks’s Color palette automatically displays as many colors as your monitor can handle up to 256.)

You can change object attributes in the same way you apply them. New attribute choices overwrite existing ones. The default settings that appear in the Attributes palette can also be changed as described in “Default Object Attributes.