Transfer Individual Styles Between drawings

[martin888888]

Using Civil 3d 2011, I am trying to drag and drop styles from a template drawing to my working drawing.  I drag the style into my working drawing and it acts like it is dropping it in my drawing put it never does show up in toolspace.

Anyone ever seen this issue?

[brian.strandberg]

Check and make sure you are displaying the settings tab, active drawing view.

[tcorey]

Actually, be sure you are showing the Settings tab, Master View. This will list both drawings.

Try dragging the style up or down within the Settings tab and drop it on the receiving drawing's name. This can be tedious, but if it works...

Tim

[brian.strandberg]

Yep, completely messed up that tip.  You should be in the Settings Tab, Master View.  Instead of dragging the style onto the recieving drawing's name, I usually have the recieving drawing open and drag the style into the Drawing Window.

As Tim said, this is tedious.  If I need more than a few styles I usually use the IMPORTSTYLESANDSETTINGS command from the Manage Tab, Import Styles.

Hope this helps.

[david.zavislan]

A very common mistake that people make when dragging styles from another drawing is that two drawings are opened in separate instances of Civil 3D.  In order for the drag-and-drop to work, both files need to be open in the same session of Civil 3D.

[martin888888]

and thats exactly what I did.  Thanks for the help

[troma]

I don't think  the IMPORTSTYLESANDSETTINGS command is in 2011.

I haven't found it yet, anyway!

[brian.strandberg]

It isn't there for 2011, but you can INSERT a drawing containing styles.  (Remove the geometry from the drawing first)

[martin888888]

oh ok, so you can just insert another drawing such as a template drawing and it will insert all the styles?  I did not know that.  Thanks

[tcorey]

Except that you cannot Insert a .dwt, it has to be .dwg. Make a new drawing from the template and save it. Insert that to another drawing and the styles will come in with it. You should want all styles from the template if you're going to do it this way.

Once you step up to 2012 or beyond, you will have a styles manager that lets you pick and choose. It also will import settings.

That was good point someone made about trying to drag styles from one AutoCAD session to another. I rarely have the AutoCAD app open more than once, so I didn't even think about that. Kudos to you!

Tim

[HansSMS]

You can also just copy an object from one drawing to a second drawing and then delete it again. The related styles will be brought across during the copy, but will stay in the second drawing after the object has been deleted.