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Customize Civil 3d Templates and Styles

Name: Customize Civil 3d Templates and Styles
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Customize Templates and Styles in Civil 3d

Created bySam Jr

Last updated 12/2025

English

What you'll learn

Configure your Civil 3D platform for easy access to your template drawings
Copy Styles and Settings between Drawings and/or Templates
Create Custom Object Styles, Label Styles, and Band Styles
Configure Drawing, Feature, and Command Settings

Course content

5 sections • 18 lectures • 54m total length

Configure your System for Easy Access to Templates1:44
In this video you will learn how you can configure your Civil 3D platform for making it easy to select your Civil 3D templates. The Templates Settings, in the Civil 3D profile, can be used to set the default folder location and QNEW template. Configuring these settings in your Civil 3D profiles will save you time by making it easier and faster to select your templates. If you need access to templates in different folders, you can add Folder Shortcut into Places.
Copy Styles and Settings between Drawings4:07
In this video you will learn how to copy styles and settings between drawings and templates. Styles can be copied between 2 open drawing files using the Civil 3D Tooslpace. In Master View, you can drag and drop a style or style group from another open drawing file in the current Civil 3D session. Another option that you can use is to import styles from another drawing, which allows you to also import the Settings that are different between the 2 drawing files. A third option is to use Reference Templates, where Civil 3D Styles and Settings can be imported, but also other CAD standards like Layers, Blocks, and Property Sets.
Working with Reference Templates3:19
In this video you will learn how to use Reference Templates to import Civil 3D and AutoCAD styles and settings. One or more Reference Templates can be used to import Civil 3D Styles and Settings, along with CAD standards, like Blocks, Linetypes, Text Styles, and Property Sets. If a change is made to the Reference Template, updates will be pushed to the host drawing files when re-opened or reloaded. If duplicates are encountered, the Reference Template priority can be adjusted or styles and settings turned off in higher priority templates so the nested options can be used in the host drawing. If you need to edit a referenced style or setting, you can copy it into the host drawing and make changes.

Create Custom Object Styles2:00
In this video you'll learn the best approach for creating new object styles in Civil 3D.
Create Custom View Style3:41
In this video you will learn how to create a custom view style. View Styles are used in Civil 3D for Profile and Sections Views, and for Mass Haul Diagrams. The general settings are similar for all views, and this video will review some of those general settings to help you get started to customize your view styles. The best approach to take when customizing view styles, is to copy an existing style, then use the style in your drawing file to make interactive refinement
Create Custom Table Styles3:56
In this video you will learn how to create and customize a table in Civil 3D. Tables are used for a variety objects in Civil 3D, including to create line and curve tables, point tables, pipe network tables, and volume tables. Regardless of what type of table you are creating, the Table Styles have similar features and settings that you can use to customize the data properties and display settings for your tables.

Edit Label Style Defaults4:09
In this video you will learn how to leverage Label Style Defaults to preset, and push, label styles to subordinate level label styles in your Civil 3D drawing files. Label styles can be leveraged at different hierarchy levels in your Civil 3D drawings to provide greater flexibility in the management of labels, including giving you the ability to override subordinate edits to a label style, remove child overrides, and lock given parameters in a label st
Create Custom Label Styles4:52
In this video you will learn how to create and edit a label style in Civil 3D. Label Styles are unique for each object type, but the tools used to create the label style is the same throughout the platform. All Civil 3D labels are authored using the Label Style Composer and the Text Component Editor. This video demonstrates how to create a Point Label style, but these tools and techniques covered will help you for all Civil 3D labels.
Create Custom Band Styles4:25
In this video you will learn how to create a custom band styles for Civil 3D Graphs. Bands are used to label and annotate views, like Profile and Section Views. Bands can be added to the Top or Bottom of the view, and can include a labeling for Profile Data, Horizontal & Vertical Geometry, Super elevation Data, Sectional Data, Pipe & Pressure Networks. Band Styles can be applied to views individually or by using Band Sets.
Create Custom Band Sets2:27
In this video you will learn how to create a custom Band Set to use for Profile Views created in Civil 3D. Band Sets can be used for Profile and Section Views to quickly and easily label object data. Multiple Bands can be added to the top or bottom of the view using gaps and settings to control the label frequency.

Configure Default Drawing Settings2:53
In this video you will learn how to set the default Drawing Settings in your current Civil 3D drawing. Drawing Settings are the highest level of settings that you can define in your Civil 3D drawings. In the Drawing Settings you can preset the Units and Zone, Transformation settings, Object Layers, Abbreviations, and Ambient Settings. Establishing the defaults at this level will propagate down to lower levels in the drawing file, including the Feature and Command Settings. Although Drawing Settings can be overridden by the Feature and Command Settings, the Drawing Settings can override any child overrides.
Configure Default Feature Settings1:44
In this video you will learn how to configure the Feature Settings in your Civil 3D drawings. Feature Settings can be used to override Drawing Settings and to assign defaults for Object types, like surfaces, alignments, and many others. Configuring the Feature Settings in your templates can help to enforce standards on your projects.
Configure Default Command Settings2:06
In this video you will learn how to set the default Command Settings in a Civil 3D drawing. Command Settings can be used to override Drawing and Feature Settings, and to set the defaults for specific commands/tools. Configuring the Command Settings in your drawings and templates can simply the use of Civil 3D tools and help enforce CAD standards.

Create Property Sets4:13
In this video you will learn how to create a Property Set in Civil 3D. Property Sets can be used in many ways, including appending data to AutoCAD and Civil 3D objects, extracting information from objects, and creating schedules.
Create Property Set Lists1:38
In this video you will learn how to create a pre-populated list for manual property definitions in Property Sets. Lists are helpful to ensure consistency and restrict options for manual property definitions. List are created and assigned in the Property Sets Style Manage
Assign Property Sets to Objects3:10
In this video you will learn how to assign a property set to Civil 3D object. Property sets can be assigned to AutoCAD and Civil 3D objects manually or using an automatic option. You can assign and/or remove a property set to/from an individual object or a selection set of object
Add Property Sets to Civil 3D Labels2:35
In this video you will learn how to add a Property Definition from a Property Set into a Civil 3D label. To add a Property Set into a Civil 3D label you must use the Label Style Composer and Text Component Editor.
Add Property Sets to Template Drawings1:58
In this video you will learn how to copy a Property Set between drawing files. Reference Templates can be used with Property Sets to load into production drawings, or the Property Sets can be copied into your templates using the Style Manage

Requirements

Civil 3d Fundamentals

Description

This Learning Path contains courses that will teach you how to configure your Civil 3D platform to easily access your templates and will teach you the basics for customizing Civil 3D Styles and Settings. The topics presented in this course are conceptually fundamental, but intended as the next level of learning for the Civil 3D platform. Each course can be taken individually or in sequence as presented.

Upon completion, you will be able to:

· Configure your Civil 3D platform for easy access to your template drawings

· Copy Styles and Settings between Drawings and/or Templates

· Configure Label Style Defaults

· Create Custom Object Styles, Label Styles, and Band Styles

· Create Custom Label Sets and Band Sets

· Configure Drawing, Feature, and Command Settings

· Create Custom Property Sets and add to Template

Courses

Enrolling in the Learning Path will add the following courses to your Current Enrollments list:

· Manage Civil 3D Templates

· Customize Object Styles

· Customize Object Label Styles

· Configure Drawings Settings

· Property Sets

Learning Path Prerequisites

· Civil 3D Fundamentals

In this course you will learn the importance of templates and how to create templates for your Civil 3D projects. Templates will help enforce organization and project standards, but also help to simplify the use of tools in Civil 3D. Starting a new project drawing using the correct template, or referencing a template, loads the AutoCAD and Civil 3D styles to jump start you into your projects.

Who this course is for:

Civil Egineers
Civil 3d Modelers
Land Development Engineers

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Course content

Managing Civil 3d Templates Course3 lectures • 9min

Customize Object Styles Course3 lectures • 10min

Customize Object Label Styles Course4 lectures • 16min

Configure Drawing Settings Course3 lectures • 7min

Custom Property Sets Course5 lectures • 14min

Requirements

Description

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