Object Layers

Today I want to present to you a nice feature that might help you organize your drawing. Or at least the Layers and Objects in it. Actually I learnt this quite recently myself - don't tell anyone...

What I mean is that you have the possibility to choose that C3D creates a specific Layer for each Object you create.
Here I will present how you can put Alignments on different Layers (The same proceedure applies for most other C3D Objects as well)

In the following picture I have an Alignment called "Centerline1" (See ToolTip and Toolspace in picture). As it is selected on screen you see that it is put on a Layer called "ALIGNMENTS".


If you go to the Settings tab in the Toolspace, rightclick on the Drawing name, you can select "Edit Drawing Settings".


You will find a Dialog with some tabs - select the one called "Object Layers".
For the row "Alignments" the default Layer for creation is set to "ALIGNMENTS". (See picture below)


If you change the column "Modifier" to use a "Suffix" and in the "Value" column you enter a space and then an * you will have your Alignments created on their own Layers.


As you can see below the next created Alignment called "Centerline2" got created on the Layer "ALIGNMENTS Centerline2" (See Layer Toolbar in picture)


As you will see this might be useful to separate different Surface TIN's etc.
This shows yet another way of the flexibility in Civil 3D.