Getting Started with Templates

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When you will start your project, you have to pay attention to both the styles and the templates.

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When we design, we need to have a certain display of our data to help us to analyze the project.

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Then we're going to use another style for the deliveries.

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So, the layers and the styles can come from your company standardization,

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it can come from the template developed by Autodesk, and also by the country kit.

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So, when I say the styles and layers, so that means, obviously, the AutoCAD layers as you can see here,

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the styles of the Civil 3D objects in my example which is the surface style and then the template for the plan production.

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So, for the template of design, when I say template of designs, because the template will rule the display of your object.

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So, that will rule the layers and the display of the object and also, the content of your label.

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And that will also rule the display of your corridor.

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So, I will show you a brief demo about it.

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Here I have my surface.

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But that doesn't really give me a lot of information.

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So, to help me to analyze certain topic, I can go to my Surface Properties.

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And I can select different Styles.

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So, for example here, you see I have my arrows to define the slope.

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Here, I can see the border and elevation and so on.

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So, the elevations come from here, that analysis, like that.

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So, you can configure it, the display of your Civil 3D objects to help you in your analysis.

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So, I change the display.

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So, for example, my surface background, I prefer to have a background style.

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So, therefore, make it easier to have a look on my project.

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And this is an example on the surface.

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But for example, if I select a cross-section, it's the same.

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I select my cross-section object.

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I go to the Section View Property.

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And I can say, OK, I want to change the style.

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And the style is, for example, important for the display but also, for the vertical exaggeration.

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So, the style rules everything in Civil 3D.

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It's very important.

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For the corridor, it's a bit more complex.

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For example, here, you have my corridor.

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But with this style, I don't really see if I am in cut and fill.

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Like, it's all in pink.

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So, it's an example.

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But if I go to my corridor properties, and I go to the Corridor Style tab, and I change to All Codes, and you see here now it's better.

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For example, here, you can see in the green, that means I am in fill area and when I am in red, that means in cut area into a tube, for example.

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This is what you see here in my cross-section.

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For example, you see here I am in fill area so it's in green and in red because I'm in cut area.

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But instead of doing my cross-sections because it takes a bit of time to create print my cross-sections,

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I can already use a certain Corridor Set Style of my corridor to already have a look directly from my plan view.

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So, the style is very important to help you to design in Civil 3D.