Properly configuring your drawing templates beforehand ensures that your model content is accurate, and all your team members are working within the same standards. In Civil 3D, it is important to set up your drawing templates to facilitate the design process across your entire team. Learn how to speed up the creation of elements such as layers, object styles, title blocks, and annotation.

After completing, you will be able to:

Customize and apply object styles to control how objects display within your model, as part of the template creation process.
Add a label to an item within your Civil 3D drawing, apply and adjust the label style, and share a label style across drawings.
Modify an existing template to add a new layout and understand why it is important to use templates when generating plan and profile sheets.

Getting started with templates

Video quiz

How can you control the appearance of an object within your model?