AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2012 Essentials: Autodesk® Official Training Guide: Essential

Displaying Pipe Networks Using Styles

Pipe and structure styles are two of the most sophisticated styles that you'll find in Civil 3D. They provide many options for displaying the components of your pipe network design in plan, profile, model, and even section view. It is important to have many options for displaying pipe networks, because often you have different types of systems in the same drawing that need to be differentiated graphically.

Applying Structure Styles

Civil 3D styles provide a number of fundamental ways to display structures. In plan view, you can display a structure as an outline of its 3D form, or you can use an AutoCAD block ...