Settings defining how elements are displayed on screen

Elements are not always displayed on screen with the format properties you have defined. In other words, an element to which you have assigned the color red does not necessarily appear in red. The manner in which elements are displayed on screen depends on a number of settings controlled by priorities. Top priority is given to several general settings in the Options (Desktop environment page - General area) for example, followed by the actual format properties of the elements.

The following table shows the sequence in which elements are displayed on screen. The No. column shows the priority; the lower the number the higher the priority of the corresponding setting. If, for example, you have enabled the Use same color for elements in reference files option (priority 1), elements in reference files are always displayed using the color you have set, regardless of all the other settings such as format properties, construction lines, color stands for pen option etc.