How to make the pipe network styles really apply? Layers.

[bforr]

Ver 2023

Can someone please explain to me again how pipe network styles work for turning off the layers in viewports?  When I assign layers in styles to pipes and structures, they inherently are on and remain on layer 0 and have to select them and put them on the assigned layer.  I can swap part and it works, but when I do that, the style changes so i have to reset that too.  Might as well select them and put them on the layer i want.

[Joe-Bouza · Accepted solution]

Hi Bryan

It kind of depend how the style was setup and what your ambient settings are.

think of the style as a nested block with with a bunch of layers defining the outer wall the inner and the centerline plus what ever layer the block is inserted on.

if you freeze the insertion layer nothing displays

you can individually freeze the centerline, outer , inner or change the color/ line weight with out effecting the insertion layer.

this is also true per view port by opening the view port listing the layers and controlling the "vplayer" settings.

I hope that helps

[bforr]

hmmm thanks for the reply.  I hadn't thought of it that way.  I haven't created many dynamic blocks.  

So for this dwg my style was:  Plan - Structure on Layer c-strm-strc-frontage road (design)

hahaha oh man I just realized I had the profile layer set to s-strm-strc-frontage road (existing).   Changed it to c-strm....and guess what.  

[MMcCall402]

Its a little bit like how a block can be on one layer yet all the objects in the block are on several different layers.  Turning off or freezing the layer the block is on makes all the objects not visible. Turning off/freezing a layer of just some of the objects within the block only makes those objects not visible.   

Civil 3D objects are much the same.  There are Object layers for the object itself and there are layers defined in the styles for which aspects of those objects are to be displayed. (pipe inner or outer walls, hatching, centerline, etc)  Turning off the object layer turns it all off. Turning off just a layer from what is defined in the style only turns off that portion.