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Explore the drawing settings with the Settings tab

Explore the drawing settings with the Settings tab - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial

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Explore the drawing settings with the Settings tab

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- [Instructor] Civil 3D is a very complex program, and it also has amazing potential for automation. For that automation to take place, you have to be able to configure all of the settings that control it. Let's see where that happens. Just below the Prospector tab in the tool space, we see the Settings tab. Here, you see a list of objects that you may recognize from looking at the Prospector tab in the previous exercise. What's happening here is that for all of those object types that you saw in Prospector, there are settings that go with them. Ways for you or someone else to configure those objects in ways that will save you time. For example, under Surface, we see Surface Styles. These control the appearance and behavior of surfaces, and automate the output that surfaces create. And down a little bit, we have Label Styles located under Surfaces, and these do the same thing for the annotation that you use to provide text…

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