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Understand objects and styles

Understand objects and styles - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Understand objects and styles

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- [Instructor] The dynamic environment of Civil 3D is all about relationships. Let's begin our understanding of this by studying the relationship between objects and styles. Now, if you remember from earlier in last chapter, we talked about the fact that Civil 3D is built on AutoCAD, so it contains lines, arcs, and circles. But because of the Civil 3D part, there are special objects like alignments, pipes, corridors, and surfaces. Let me show you where those are in the drawing. The white object here is an alignment, and you can see when I click on it, it brings up a contextual alignment tab. And if I were to launch the properties command, you would see that this is an alignment object. So, it's not a standard AutoCAD line, arc, or circle, it's an alignment object, unique to Civil 3D. And as I mentioned, we've got pipes. We've got a pipe here. We've got surfaces, represented by the contours here. We've got corridors…

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