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Elements of Style in Autodesk Civil 3d®

James Wedding, P.E.Vice President, Engineered Efficiency, Inc.

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Welcome to AU 2006!

James Wedding, P.E. Dana Probert & Kevin Breslin (Tuesday)

Rad Lazic & Jessica Montoya (Wednesday)

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Today’s Topics

•What is a Style?

•ByLayer vs ByStyle

•Parent and Child Styles

•Four States of Styles

•Managing Styles

•Reference Text & Notes

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What is a Style?

Visual Control for Civil 3D Objects Text Height Layering Colors and Lineweights Hatching Masking Object Information

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ByLayer vs ByStyle

ByLayer Familiarity Works with XREFs One Style for One

Object

ByStyle Fewer Layers Right-click Flexibility Easy to Change Multiple

Objects

For now, ByLayer is the way to go!

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Parent & Child Styles

•Applies to Labels Only

•Similar to Dimension Styles

•Allows Mass Changes to Styles

•Standardization of Display within a Family

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Four States of Styles

Surfaces, Points, Pipes

Some Corridors

Alignments, Profiles, Parcels

Some Corridors & Surfaces

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Managing Styles

•Template Creation

•Parents and Children Divide by Type, then Specifics

•Drag and Drop

•Enforcement?

•Who Has the Keys? Civil3d.com Discussion

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Reference Text and Notes

•New in 2007

•Allows Multiple Objects in One Label

•Customer Driven

•Overrides

•Multi-directional Surface label calling Alignment Alignment label calling Surface Dana’s Driveway Area Example on civl3d.com

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Questions?E-mail:

james.wedding@eng-eff.com

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www.civil3d.com

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