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Drawing Management

Creating your Civil 3D company styles “on the fly” the WBLOCK method

Maybe a primitive method but a good one.

Anyone who is new or old to Civil 3D knows how difficult it is to create all the styles you will need to finish projects in a timely fashion. But most of us don’t have the time to sit down and create all these styles. Let alone the will power to just sit down and create styles and nothing else.

So here is a technique for creating styles as you do project work. Using a WBLOCK style inbox.

Feeling lazy.. watch the video.

In a nut shell though, you are working, you create a style. You WBLOCK it out to a common directory. You keep working.

Next chance you get some free time you do some “Style Review and Cleanup”. Incorporate it back into your template. Then Repeat!

The WBLOCK command.

This is also a great method for creating DXREFS with Civil 3D, onto that another time though

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Civil 3d “Style States” – Create/Restore/Edit your Civil 3D Object Style/Settings

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This would be so useful. Been able to save the styles you have selected for various civil 3d objects. In particular, for more complex projects, where constantly resetting between various styles can be rather tedious.

This workflow could even flow over to data shortcuts. Where it would be possible to create reference to multiple objects using the “style states” saved in your project.

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Layer Filter by Selection for Civil 3d Objects

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We all like to manage our civil 3d styles in combination with regular AutoCAD layers. But quite often after assigning layers in the display tab we need to modify the layers properties. It can be difficult to determine what layers a civil 3d style is using, as we have to keep flicking between the “edit style” dialog box and the layer manager.

Unfortunately within the Display Tab of any style edit, we can only assign layers not modify the layers properties themselves. Meaning you need to keep closing the box and going back to the layer manager.

Although adding the ability to edit the layer properties from within the style box might be handy, It would be even more useful to filter layers in the layer manager based on the selected objects.

This would make quick changes to styles possible without overriding the layers selected in the styles or even ever needing to enter the “edit style” dialog box

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