From the course: Autodesk Civil 3D 2022 Essential Training

Apply profile styles - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

From the course: Autodesk Civil 3D 2022 Essential Training

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Apply profile styles

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- [Instructor] Now that you've learned how to create and edit profiles and profile views, let's take a look at applying styles and annotations to them. We'll begin with profile styles. To start out, I'll zoom into our Jordan court profile view and you'll notice that I have two profiles here, one representing existing ground and one representing proposed. The first thing I'll do is select the existing ground profile, the red dashed line. And with that selected, I'll click the Properties icon up here on the ribbon. In the Properties palette, where it says Style, you'll notice that it's currently set to Existing ground profile, I'm going to change that to No display. And you'll find that for most objects in Civil 3D, there is a no display style. It's a way to remove it from view so that it's not visible and it won't plot on any drawings but the Data is still there in the drawing for you to use. I'll press Escape to clear the selection of the profile even though we can't see it and I'll go ahead and close down the Properties window. Next, I'll click this black profile, this is the design profile for Jordan court and I'll go back up and click the Properties icon. For this profile, we'll start by changing the style from design profile to layout. And I'll press Escape so that we can look at the profile a little more closely and you'll see that I have different colors for the tangents and the curves, I've got all of my markers visible. This might be a style that I use when I'm designing the profile so that I can see the different components clearly and see all my markers so I can keep track of where they are. Now this might not be the type of style that I'd use to plot the final drawing, just simply something I'd use for design and then switch it out before I plot a final set. Let's try another one. I'll select the profile and this time I'll change the style to basic. And when I press Escape to clear the grips, you'll see that this style lives up to its name, it's just a plain black line with no markers or different colors or anything like that. And let's try one more. I'll select the profile and I'll change it this time to Design profile with markers. So we should see something similar to design profile but with some extra symbology here. And if I, again, press Escape to clear this selection, you'll see the different markers that are displayed for the beginnings and ends of curves, the PVI and so on. So what do we do with that existing ground profile since we can no longer see it or click on it? Well, if you remember, everything that we do in Civil 3D is stored and laid out for us in the Tool space on the Prospector tab. So I can find that profile even though I don't see it on my screen. And to do that, I'll go to Alignments, Center line alignments, my alignment in question here is Jordan court and you'll see that beneath Jordan court, there's a section for profiles and the two profiles that we saw when I first opened the drawing are both here; EGCL and FGCL. Now, we can see FGCL currently in the drawing but we can't see EGCL 'cause if you recall, we set the style to No display. So let's put it back to something that's visible. To do that I'll simply right-click on it and pick Properties and you'll notice this is a different kind of properties, this is the Civil 3D properties whereas this is the AutoCAD properties. Here, I can change the object style and I'll change that from No display to Existing ground profile, click Okay and now the profile is visible once again and you can see it's in that dashed red format that we saw at the beginning of the exercise. So that's how profile styles are used to manage the appearance of your profiles for different purposes.

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