Copy styles to another drawing

[rcallison]

Is there a way to copy a style (i.e. labeling style) from one drawing to another?

[Alfred.NESWADBA · Accepted solution]

Hi,

depends on your Civil3D-version!

With 2012 you have the possibility to import styles from any drawings (plus clean styles), command _IMPORTSTYLESANDSETTINGS (_PURGESTYLES for cleaning).

With 2011 or older you can drag&drop single styles, so open the source-drawing and the destination-drawing. Place them side-by-side in the AutoCAD-applicationwindow (e.g. command _SYSWINDOWS ==> _VERT), than active the source-drawing, now you can drag a style from the Civil-prospector/styles to the window of the destination drawing.

HTH, - alfred -

[rcallison]

Thank you,

That worked perfect.

One more questions.  How do I set a particular style as current?

Thanks.

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> How do I set a particular style as current?

Civil3D-styles work different compared to AutoCAD dimensionstyle or textstyle. In most cases you can set the style (and also other presettings) by finding the command that's used to create a Civil3D-object.

So for example if you want to set the default style for creation of a surface:

• goto Civil3D-prospector
• change to "settings"
• A) right-click on "surface" ==> "object-settings" (hope that is correct translated from my german version) .... here is the first point to define the default-style for surfaces
• B) alternative is to open "surface" ==> "commands" and right click on "CreateSurface" or "CreateSurfaceFromTIN" or "CreateSurfaceXXXX" .... here you can override the default settings (and default surface-style) dependig on how you create a surface (what type of surface will be created)

HTH, - alfred -