Chapter 19

Styles

Styles control the display properties of Civil 3D objects and labels. The creation of proper styles and settings can make or break your experience with Civil 3D.

Understanding and applying styles correctly can mean the difference between getting a job out in several hours and fighting with your CAD drawing for days.

This chapter is organized by style type. First, read the chapter to be introduced to the style concepts in a logical manner. Later, when you use this chapter as a reference to build styles, you will likely jump around to the examples that meet your needs.

Civil 3D styles and settings are stored in a DWT template file. At this point in the process, it would be beneficial to understand the role of the template file for base AutoCAD.

In this chapter, you will learn to:

• Override individual labels with other styles
• Create a new label set for alignments
• Apply a standard label set to profiles