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Apply section styles

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- [Instructor] In the previous chapter, you learned how to create and work with sections. In this chapter we'll cover how to annotate sections and control their display and behavior through styles. In fact, that's a good place to begin. Let's start with section styles. In this exercise, I want to show you three different ways that we can change the style of a section within a section view. I'll start down here with the lowest section view. And we actually have three different sections in this view. We have this one here, which represents the rock. This one here, which represents existing ground. And the third is the corridor section which we'll look at later. So let's start with this rock section. One way I can change its style is to click the section. You can see that section line's been highlighted. And then on the Section Rock tab, I'll click that, and then click Section Properties. And with Section Properties on the Information tab I can click the Object Style drop down and pick the style that I want to use. In this case, we'll use Rock. I'll press Escape. And you can see that the style has dictated that that line is to appear as a gray dashed line. Let's take a look at why. What's inside the style that's making that happen. I'll select the section, right-click, and pick Edit Section Style. It's actually really simple in this case. If we go to the Display tab, you see one of the simplest styles that we have in Civil 3D. There's really just the segments and the points, and we can choose a layer for each one as well as some other properties. But you can see that most of our properties are dictated by layer, so as long as we set the layer properly everything else will fall into place. So for this particular style, we're only showing segments. We're showing them on this layer. And this layer is dictating that it's going to be a gray line and that it's going to be dashed. Those properties are embedded in the layer itself. All right, let's use the same process to do this existing ground section. I'll pick it. Go to the section EG tab, Section Properties, and then this time I'll pick Existing Ground. And you can see it comes out as a nice, red dashed line. All right, let's look at the next section and choose a different way to do it. This time we'll use just the AutoCAD Properties command. So I'll select the section. And I can right-click and pick properties, or whatever way you like to launch the Properties command in AutoCAD. You can see the style is currently set to Finished Ground. We just simply need to change that to Rock. I'll press Escape to clear the selection, and I'll even keep the Properties window visible here. I'll select the other section and change the style from Finished Ground to Existing Ground. Press Escape to clear the selection, close the window, and now we've got the same result here. We just used a different way of changing the style. And now I'll show you a third way. I'll click the section view itself. I'll click one of the grid lines. And then from here, we can go to Section View properties. Click on the Sections tab. And then you'll see the style column for each of the sections that are displayed. So here's EG. I'll just click the style cell there, change it to Existing Ground. Here's rock, I'll change the style cell there, change it to Rock. Click OK. OK again. And that's yet another way of changing the styles of the sections. So there you have it. That's how section styles can be used to control the display of sections to distinguish what they represent.

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