topic Re: Section View puts existing ground and grid on same layer in Civil 3D Forum

Section View puts existing ground and grid on same layer

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 19:01:49 GMT

When I create road section views, the section view grid and the section's existing ground line both end up on the same layer, C-ROAD-SCTN-VIEW.

However, when I am in paperspace, I only want to see the existing ground, not the section's grid. (I have my own dot grid set up in paperspace for these sections). So if I am in paperspace, double click inside each model space vport and viewport layer freeze the C-ROAD-SCTN-VIEW layer, then the grid turns off and the existing ground line remains on. However, when I print, the existing ground layer doesn't plot.

I've tried to right click on the existing ground line in section view in modelspace tab, go to section properties, change the section data tab layer to EXIST (red, dashed2) layer instead. It'll show the existing ground as EXIST properties. I've gone to Edit Section Style, changed layer segments and components to EXIST. And I'll do sample more sources just to be safe. But when I go back to paperspace, and regen, the sections in paperspace still won't show the existing ground line when the C-ROAD-SCTN-VIEW layer is refrozen in the viewport's modelspace.

Re: Section View puts existing ground and grid on same layer

igi_pop — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 10:37:19 GMT

hey!

You should create a new SECTION STYLE where you would control layers and display of POINTS and SECTIONS.

SECTION VIEW style does not control the egsisting ground appearance. By accident in your case, it does cause of "overlapping" layers.

Create a style, layers (for instance "EG sections" and "EG points"), control what and how to see and plot, or not.

And in VIEW STYLE..well, there's like 20 options there, note their layers (or if your wishes make it possible to group them, even better so, i have al my grids on a non-plot layer called G0_grid or something) and set them up for plotting/viewing as you wish.

Also, to see your sections in a better list, overview. select a sample line, right click, go to sections. There you'll see what you are sampling, and which style is applied for appearance. It's easier to initiate the style settings for sections like this cause you can go trough 20 styles from one menu so to say, without syphing trough the drawing and clicking single sections.Also, this way the entire view group will change to reflect your setup 😉