Civil 3D - drag n' drop

IMPORTING STYLES USING DRAG N’ DROP METHOD IN CIVIL 3D AND PIPE NETWORK PARTS LIST IMPORTING.

Importing a style from another drawing using drag n’ drop. Or importing a parts list from another drawing.

DRAWING A .dwg

Drawing A will be the drawing with the donor styles we want to use. Additionally, it will have a parts list for a pipe network to import into drawing B.

DRAWING B -STYLES.dwg.

Drawing B will be the recipient of the custom style from A.

With both files open in the CAD session select the 13-0043 A-STYLES.dwg and make sure it is the active drawing.

Begin opening the toolspace menu.  

On the Toolspace menu go to the tabs and select ‘Settings’ tab. If Settings is not shown make sure this icon is highlighted

Make sure the selection top bar is selected in Master View. Expand the drawingA.DWG FILE.

Then expand the Pipe Network class and expand the Parts lists. Drag n’ drop the IE-San parts list into drawing B-STYLES.dwg by selecting the icon highlighted. Any other part of the like the name of the style will prevent you from drag n’ dropping the style. Once selected and while holding the left mouse button the icon will turn into the null icon   You can drag it into the grey area to make sure you’ve selected the parts list. Now drag it into the drawing area of the active drawing and drop it in any blank area of the drawing. The icon will turn into this when you drag it into the active drawing. When you let go of the mouse button it will import the style into the active drawing.

     You can make sure the parts list is imported in by expanding the active drawing, going to Pipe Network heading and expanding it.

The IE-San Parts list has been imported from 13-0043_PIPES_4&5.dwg to 13-0043 A-STYLES.dwg.

Now finish by importing the pipe style PROP SAN and Structure styles for every structure for a Proposed Sanitary network before beginning the next step.

Configuring the Pipe Network parts list in a new drawing before referencing a pipe network.

Make sure your drawing has the correct pipe styles and structure styles (PROP SAN, OR EXIST SAN) already imported before beginning.

With our new parts list we can right-click on its name and select ‘edit’. If the parts list was not referenced from a drawing which contained the original network of the parts list.  AutoCAD will default every single item into ‘Standard’ Style or left blank. However, you can choose the parts and select the icon at the top of the heading.

This will assign the style you wish, in this case PROP SAN (proposed sanitary) to the Ductile Iron Pipes.

Repeat for PVC, HDPE, etc.

Structures will also have to be reassigned the correct style if it did not import correctly.

The same will apply for the heading Rules, Render Material and Pay Items. This allows a custom pipe network style to be brought into a different drawing i.e. a concept or exhibit.