Visual style

The overall layout of the document (page size, margins, fonts, colours, etc.) is called "Visual Style".

One document can have several visual styles defined. Only one visual style may be selected as the active one. On the other hand, it is simple to swap from one visual style to another. This change effects ONLY the layout of the document page. It has no impact at all on the contents of the document and on the style (let’s say layout) of individual tables and images in the document.

The visual style is kept separately from the layout and contents of tables so that it can be easily copied (distributed) to other computers where SCIA Engineer is installed.

This way, it is very simple to have a unified layout of document pages throughout the whole company.

On disk, each visual style is stored in one file. The files use extension .zdx and are stored in folder with table templates.

Note: The .zdx file is of XML format.

The visual styles can be defined and also edited in the Visual Styles Manager.