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Editing Pens
 
The contours of elements drawn with Arbortext IsoDraw are determined by four attributes. Line thickness, line style and color control the appearance of the contour itself, while halo defines how the element is isolated from the background. These contour attributes are combined into pens which can be assigned to the elements.
You can use pens to organize line thicknesses and other attributes. Each drawn element can be assigned one or more pens. This assignment can be changed subsequently at any time. You can also change the attributes of pens at any time and the elements affected will be displayed automatically with the new attributes. This is of particular advantage if the line thicknesses need to be changed at a later date. In such case, you only need to change the pens and do not have to edit the elements themselves.
 
Arbortext IsoDraw provides 4 standard pens which cannot be deleted and whose names cannot be changed. Thick, Medium, Thin and Center line. Their attributes can be modified, however, in dialog box Edit pen.
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The procedure for making general changes and extensions to the standard preferences for pens is described under Preferences.