Graphics Programs Reference
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Applying Profile Styles
As with any object style, you can use profile styles to show profiles in different ways
for different purposes. Specifically, you can use profile styles to affect the appear-
ance of profiles in three basic ways. The first is to control which components of the
profile are visible. You might be surprised to know that there are potentially eight
different components of a profile. The second is to control the graphical properties
of those components, such as layer, color, linetype, and so on. Finally, a profile style
enables you to control the display of markers at key geometric points along the pro-
file. Once again, you might be surprised at the number of types of points that can
be marked along a profile: there are 11 of them.
Certification
Objective
If you haven't already
done so, download
and install the files for
Chapter 8 according to
the instructions in the
Introduction.
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Exercise 8.1: Apply Profile Styles
Be sure your back-
ground color is set to
white before proceed-
ing with these steps.
In this exercise, you'll assign different profile styles to a profile and observe the
different ways profiles can be represented.
1.
Open the drawing named
Profile Styles.dwg
located in the
Chapter 08
class data folder.
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2.
In the Jordan Court profile view, click the red existing-ground profile,
and then click Profile Properties on the ribbon.
Because the majority of
the work in this chapter
is done in profile view,
the drawings aren't
set up with multiple
viewports.
3.
On the Information tab of the Profile Properties dialog box, change
the style to _No Display. Then click OK.
The profile disappears from view.
4.
Press Esc to clear the selection of the existing ground profile. Then
click the black design profile for Jordan Court. Right-click, and select
Properties.
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5.
In the Properties window, change the Style property to Layout, and
press Esc to clear the grips.
The profile now shows curves and lines as different colors and
includes markers that clearly indicate where there are key geometry
points (see Figure 8.1). This might be helpful while you're in the pro-
cess of laying out the profile, but it may not work well when you're
using the profile to create a final drawing.
You can also use
the specific Profile
Properties command
to access the style
assignment. To show it
a different way, how-
ever, in step 5 you use
the generic Properties
command instead.
