Sharing Civil 3D Styles

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For the style, the styles are stored in the template in the format DWG or in the AutoCAD DWG format.

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If, by mistake, you are missing a style, there is different ways to import or reference the style.

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I recommend you to reference the style, and I will explain why later.

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Here I have this file.

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In this file, I go to the Settings tab.

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And as you can see, I have no style at all, just once of a style, the Standard one.

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If I go to my Alignments, finding Standard, and so on, and so on.

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So, what you can do?

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And there's the best way is you go to the Manage tab, and you go to Reference.

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And you will be able to reference the style of another template or DWG.

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For example, here I select a DWG, and that will reference the style of my DWG.

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Obviously, because in the Civil 3D file you can have a lot of settings that takes a bit of time.

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So, after selecting the right DWT or DWG, you select which style you want to reference.

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So, you can say none of them, or all of them, and so on.

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And you can select on I only want the Surface, and so on.

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So, for example, for the video, I will just use Surface.

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As a result, we see the different styles coming as a reference with this icon.

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And why I advise you to use a reference is because if I change the style in this file by synchronizing the template,

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that will modify also the styles you have in your file here.

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Okay. So, if you want to only have one single source of data it's better to add reference.

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If you want to import, obviously, it's easy.

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You have this command to import, otherwise you can do that manually.

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So, for example, here I can go to Master View, and I can go to here.

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And for example, I can go to Alignment Style,

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and I can just drag and drop the alignment styles of my Corridor style drawing to my Drawing3, like this.

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In this way, you can import.

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So, if I go now to my Active Drawing View, you see that now I have my different styles of alignment.

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So, this is a good trick in case in your project you are missing certain styles and you need to copy styles from another template or drawing.