Symbol creation and insertion options

[ChristopherO]

I'd like the capability to create a symbol so that when it is inserted into a drawing, the symbol takes on ALL the attributes of the class it is inserted into. In other words, if I create a symbol, I'd like it's lineweight, color, fill, linetype, etc. all controlled by the class it's inserted into, not limited to the attributes that were used when originally creating the symbol. This is useful in a number of ways.

1. If you want to have a drawing that uses the same symbol but have it appear differently: dashed linetype, heavy/lighter pen width or with a screened linetype.

2. You can use the same symbol on different classes and control it's visibility through only the inserted class and not it's originally drawn class.

3. Create symbols independent of class, not necessarily knowing how the symbols will be placed into a drawing.

[Dieter @ DWorks]

I think that's not always a good way. maybe there must be an option to do that if you wanted to.

here are solutions:

1) make the symbol with certain classes and just adapt these classes

2) set the symbols in differend classes

3) everything must have a class. but i know what you want, i have no answer to this.

[Petri]

I don't think this can be done. Symbols are not "intelligent", as objects can be.

Of course you can have different-looking sets of pre-defined classes as your templates.