Learn/Drafting/2D Sketch Editor
Entity Styling
At a glance
- Per-entity color — any hex value
- Line style: Solid, Dashed, Dotted, Dash-dot, Center, Phantom
- Right-click any entity → Properties to adjust
- Useful for differentiating cut, score, and reference geometry
Right-click any sketch entity and choose Properties to inspect and restyle it. The dialog shows the entity's measured geometry — length and angle for lines, radius and arc length for arcs, perimeter and enclosed area for closed polylines — plus its color and line style. Colors carried in from a DXF import are preserved per entity.
Color and line style
The style picker offers six line styles: solid, dashed, dotted, dash-dot, center, and phantom — the standard drafting linetypes, useful for marking score lines, bend lines, and reference edges apart from cut geometry. Color defaults to the theme stroke color and can be switched to red, green, blue, yellow, cyan, or magenta. Construction entities ignore both settings and always render grey dashed (see Construction Geometry).
Layers
Every entity lives on a layer (Default unless you say otherwise). The browser tree lists each
sketch's layers with per-layer visibility, color, rename, and delete, plus an active-layer radio
that decides where new geometry lands. Right-clicking an entity offers a Layers submenu to
move it — with a multi-selection, the whole selection moves at once. Layer names survive round
trips: DXF export writes each entity's layer name, and you can export a single layer by itself
(see Sketch Import / Export).
Derived geometry inherits style automatically — a fillet between two colored lines keeps their color, layer, and construction flag, and trimmed pieces keep the style of the entity they came from.