About Profiles
Profiles are loaded with a standard and control the appearance of items, formats, and annotations in a 3D figure and schematic illustration. Profiles can also control the visibility of user-added content such as attributes and annotations at the item type level or to all items.
Profiles are defined in the standard.xml file.
The profile that is applied to a figure is displayed in the figure title bar.
For Schematic Figures
For Schematic figures, you can edit the following display components for a profile:
• Fit Content—Click to fit the figure content into the grid.
• Show Grid—Toggle the grid display.
You can also override the following profile elements for a Schematic figure:
• 
Background Color • 
Connection Style For more information on overrides, see
About Overrides.
For more information on selecting and managing profiles for Schematic figures, see
To Select and Manage Profiles.
For 3D Figures
Standards can have multiple profiles defined within them. Use these profiles to affect how the elements in the figure are displayed.
Toggle the
Profiles button to apply a profile.
The profile is applied to the figure. The applied profile will also be used when you perform the following actions:
• Duplicate a figure
• Create a 2D figure from a 3D figure
• Publish a figure
If a figure has multiple profiles, toggle the
Profiles button, and then select a profile from the profiles list. Use the profiles list to
select and manage profiles.
You can override the following profile elements for a 3D figure:
• Background color
• 
Gradient Use the Parts tab to modify the appearance of one or more parts in a figure:
• 
Phantom • 
Transparency • Color For more information about modifying figures using overrides, see
About Overrides.