Child styles

[Anonymous]

I am expecting the answer to be no, but i have to ask the experts. I recently found out what child styles were and how to utilize them in my template. I have been creating them since. I noticed alot of my styles would make more since to be a child of another, than to be its own style. Is there a way to take a parent style and make it a child of another style, or do i need to recreate the styles as children?

Example:

All of these styles are so close to being the same, organizationaly they should be children to a Parent.

[peterfunkautodesk · Accepted solution]

I was going to set your question as the correct answer, but it wouldn't let me.

There is no way to move a style to be a child of another in the product.

Possible wish list item if you wanted to add it to that section. Might be possible with the API, but tricky given the number of different settings in all the different style types.

Regards,

Peter Funk

Autodesk, Inc.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for responding, I thought that would be a lot to ask of the software, but i have seen some people on this site accomplish things i never new the software could do.

[Anonymous]

I had a very similar question (asked a month later).  The online users manual says that all you have to do is left-click and drag to move styles around (and up and down the parent/child heirarchy) , but it doesn't seem to work for me or another user that tried it. 

link to Users guide

http://docs.autodesk.com/CIV3D/2013/ENU/index.html?url=filesCUG/GUID-F7976536-0F32-4445-A773-3ED8C18...

[CADmgrMike]

I'm having the same issue in 2016. When I looked at the 2016 help file, the same text was there explaining how to do it, but it doesn't work.

Or at least I can't get it to work.

I'm going to create a support ticket and see what happens.

[Jeff_M]

Maybe my eyesight is a bit further gone than I thought, but I'm not finding anything in the help that says this, or anything on the page that mikeswan2000 linked to regarding dragging styles. Can you point me to where you saw that mikepo? FYI, as Peter says in the first reply, this is not something that is currently allowed.

[Anonymous]

The link USED to take you to the help section in 2013 that said you change the child/parent relationship by dragging.   Now, this link directs to a different section and it seems like the 2013 help no longer indicates that you can drag.  So...they corrected the online help, but I would really rather have the ability to modify my styles library.   I had to recreate styles to clean up our library, which took me quite a while.     

[CADmgrMike]

I linked a screen shot of the help file.

[Anonymous]

Vindicated!   I'm surprised that is still in there...I think similar language goes back to at least 2010.   I have been told in two different C3D training sessions that you cannot break parent/child relationships and that the help info is wrong.   I was hoping that I was just having a "keyboard/user interface error" or I needed to enable a setting.    

[Jeff_M]

Thanks @CADmgrMike! 

[CADmgrMike]

Update:

I created a SR with Autodesk.

They did respond and have concluded it is a defect in the help file(s), going all the way back to 2012.

Let's hope they fix the software so we can move styles around and NOT take the text out of the help file. 

[Neilw_05]

It's already in the wish list: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-civil-3d-ideas/parent-child-styles-for-surface-objects-and-oth...

[Neilw_05]

I may not have understood the entire problem. Some objects do not support children styles. That is what the wish item is about. I wasn't aware of the drag and drop functionality of styles that do support children. 

[CADmgrMike]

Take a look at the screen shot I posted previously.

The help file since at least 2012 states it is possible to drag or copy styles between different parent styles.

But alas that is not the case. It doesn't work.