From the course: Autodesk Civil 3D 2019 Essential Training
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Civil 3D settings hierarchy - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial
From the course: Autodesk Civil 3D 2019 Essential Training
Civil 3D settings hierarchy
- We just were introduced to the Toolspace pallet found in Civil 3D. One of the four tabs within the Toolspace is Settings. Settings provides us, not just settings, which we'll take a look at in a minute, but also all of the different types of styles. So for example, within Surface we have surface styles but also the labels that are related to the surface. Those styles, the different types all can contain many different styles within each type. So there's a lot of setup that goes on before hand. Thankfully Autodesk provides us some great templates to start with. But besides the styles, the settings control Default Settings. And there's a bit of a hierarchy to those settings. So if we right click on the drawing name, we find some defaults, our label styles, text styles, text height and other settings, Drawing Settings. And so if we go into our Drawing Settings, there's many different controls to the Drawing Settings such as the scale, this is associated of course to our annotative…
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