11/28/2006 - 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Room:San Polo - 3401 (ISD Campus)Elements of Style in Autodesk® Civil 3D®Styles are all the fashion for the modern CAD user. This class will cover the basics of styles in Civil 3D. We'll explore how parent and child styles work together, how to move styles between drawings, and how you can use styles to quickly make changes in displaying the data you've already created. If you want to implement Civil 3D within your existing drafting conventions and design process, this session is for you.CV13-1LAbout the Speaker:James Wedding - Engineered Efficiency, Inc.Dana Probert (Assistant); Kevin Breslin (Assistant)andPrior to joining Engineered Efficiency Inc. as a vice president in 2006, James was in the private land-development industry for almost 9 years. He was one of the first "gunslingers" for Civil 3D, and has been working with the product since its earliest days. During his industry experience, he ran one of the earliest production pilot projects in Civil 3D, and managed IT and CAD operations for a 100-person firm in Dallas. He was named Young Engineer of the Year by the Preston Trail Chapter of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers and has served as President. James has been a highly rated speaker at AU the last two years, in addition to providing custom training and consulting [email protected] Connect to AU all year at www.autodesk.com/AUOnlineElements of Style in Autodesk Civil 3D 2 Civil 3D is entirely based on styles. Learning how to use and create styles can be the difference between a successful migration from Land Development Desktop or a completely baffling and frustrating experience. This lab will give you the first step, but expect to spend a good amount of time creating the styles to make your firm as efficient as possible. Styles control the display of Civil 3D objects. The Toolspace contains all of the settings for Civil 3D styles. Almost every object shown here has styles associated with it. Most of these objects have many different subcomponents, each of which has its own style. Notice how the expansion of the Surface branch shows not only surface styles, but labels and tables as well. Each of these items has its own styles also. You can see how quickly all of the components can easily lead to over a hundred styles in one drawing without really trying. The process of building styles can be overwhelming. There are two major ways to look at styles: controlling display by styles alone, or using the style to control the layering, and then using layering to control much of the display. For the purposes of this document and lab, we will focus on the use of styles to control the layering. This approach is the most workable at this point since the user cannot control Styles in an Xrefed drawing. This document will walk you through setting up new styles for these objects: • Point & Point Label • Surface • Parcel Line, Label (and Child) • Alignment Station Offset Label with Reference Object These styles are merely representative of all the different things you can do with Civil 3D styles. The most important part of the styles process is just to get started! Open the file Styles-Base.dwg and let’s begin.Elements of Style in Autodesk Civil 3D 3 Point Label Style and Marker with Block This label style will use a block for the point marker, and we’ll adjust the label components to show desired information and in the desired color. 1. Open Toolspace and expand the point branch. 2. Expand the Point Styles branch to expose the Points Styles already in our drawing. 3. Right-click on the Point Styles Collection folder and select New… 4. Change the Name field to AU and enter a description is you’d like. Descriptions allow users to understand what’s in a style without having to test it out, and can be much more informative than styles names alone. 5. Change to the Marker tab and use the Radio button on the left to select “Use AutoCAD BLOCK for symbol marker” 6. Pick AU from the now active block selection window. 7. Change the size in the upper right to 0.1200” Blocks used as markers in Civil 3D are scaled based on a bounding box about the block, not the actual block size! You can also browse for a block by right-clicking in this selection window.Elements of Style in Autodesk Civil 3D 4 8. Click OK to dismiss the Point Style Editor. AU should now be listed under the Point Styles in your Toolspace Settings tab. 9. Collapse the Point Styles Collection and right-click on the Label Styles collection under Points, then select New… 10. Change the Name to Elev Only, and then switch to the General tab. The preview area can be panned, rotated and orbited for better understanding of the style you are creating. Be careful, it defaults to an Orbit, which can be confusing at first! 11. Click the red X button near the top right, and the Point Number Component will be removed from the Label Style. 12. Click the Component Name drop down and select Point Description. Components are the building blocks of labels, and a complicated label such as a Profile Vertical Curve can have a dozen or more components. Be sure to use descriptive names for your components when getting complicated.Elements of Style in Autodesk Civil 3D 5 13. Click the red X again to delete the Point Description component. Point Elevation will now be selected as the only component left in this label style. 14. Click in the area next to Contents to activate the ellipsis button. 15. Click this button to pull up the Text Component Editor 16. Highlight the text in the preview are to the right and delete it. 17. Click the Precision value to get a dropdown menu and select 0.1. 18. Click the blue insert arrow near the top right to push the Point Elevation into the editor 19. Click OK to exit the Text Component editor. Notice that the preview should now show one decimal place of accuracy for the label. 20. Click OK to exit the Label Style Composer. Expand the Label Styles branch if needed and verify Elev Only has been created. 21. Select one of the points on screen and right-click to select Point Group PropertiesElements of Style in Autodesk Civil 3D 6 22. Using the dropdown style selector, pick the AU point style and the Elev Only Point label style as shown. Note the button to the immediate right. This dropdown button shows up almost every time a style selection can be made and allows for on-the-fly
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