Plotting workflow using C3D 2016 templates

Last updated: 2016-03-11

The purpose for the upgrades of the plot style tables and plotting workflow in Civil 3D 2016 is to make sure that standard output can be achieve consistently using all workstations with WisDOT Civil 3D 2016 standards loaded.  Non-standard output is achieved by saving those changes within the drawing files.  In the past, users would often make their own custom plot style table to get a desired output.  The downside to that workflow is the custom table is only located on that user's machine.  No other person would be able to get the same plotting output without obtaining the custom plot style table.  The new standards provided with the Civil 3D 2016 WisDOT customization gives each user the flexibility for custom plotting output without modifying the plot style tables.

Style-dependent is where the output and/or display settings are defined within the civil style and not merely redirected to multiple layer settings

Most of the civil object styles in the Civil 3D 2016 drawing templates are styles-dependent as opposed to layer-dependent as they were in the Civil 3D 2014 templates. This translates to a slightly different plotting workflow in 2016. The 2016 civil styles are configured to match the WisDOT Standards for Color and Linetype using Plot Styles. These style are considered hard-coded to the wisdot standards. This differs from the setup in Civil 3D 2014, where all of the civil style properties were controlled by the layer settings.