This article details the step-by-step process of setting up a title block in Civil 3D, beginning with turning off warning symbols to navigating through various tabs and options. It also covers the process of creating a new drawing, choosing a template file, creating a rectangle, and executing a series of commands such as offset and trim.
Key Insights
- The process begins with turning off warning symbols by navigating to the prospector tab of the tool space window, selecting properties, and changing display settings under the information tab.
- Creating a new drawing involves going to file new, selecting the desired template file, creating a rectangle at specified points, and executing commands such as offset and trim to adjust the drawing.
- Lastly, the process involves saving and naming the drawing as a block, closing it, and inserting it from the library into a new layout where you will modify the page setup to fit your requirements.
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We're going to go ahead and set up a title block to create our sheet from, but first I want to go ahead and turn off these warning symbols. So I'm going to go ahead and navigate to my prospector tab of my tool space window.
I'm going to go ahead and go to my EX highway. I'm going to right click and select properties. So my EX highway is under alignments, centerline alignments, EX highway.
I've right clicked and selected properties. I'm going to go to my information tab, object style. I'm going to go ahead and select edit current selection.
I'm going to go to my display tab and I'm going to select warning symbol and turn it off. I'm going to hit apply and hit okay and hit apply and hit okay. And now the warning symbols should be turned off inside of your drawing.
I'm going to go ahead and minimize these options here. I'm going to save off this drawing and then we're going to go ahead and open a new drawing. So I'm going to go ahead and go to file new.
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Civil 3D is going to ask me which template file I want to use. We're going to go ahead and go to our working folder and use the drawing template file that we set up for this class. I'm going to go to civ203 working folder.
I'm going to choose my civ203 template.dwg. I'm going to go ahead and click open and from here I'm going to go ahead and create a rectangle. I'm going to start that rectangle at a point zero comma zero and then I'm going to do it at 36 comma 24. I'm going to zoom extents and I'm going to check my rectangle to make sure that it is in fact 24 vertical by 36 horizontal.
So from here I'm going to go ahead and offset one. I'm going to fill it. I'm going to do a radius of one and I'm going to do a polyline.
I'm going to go ahead and draw in a polyline from this corner down here to this corner up here. I'm going to offset this 10 and that's too far. I'm going to go ahead and offset it five.
That looks about right. I'm going to go ahead and select this, erase it. I'm going to do a trim command and trim command is now dynamic so it just goes and finds the first intersection that it can run into.
So I'm going to go ahead and type tr, select the two lines that I want to trim off and hit escape. Now I'm going to draw a pl or a polyline across the bottom of the window. I'm going to go ahead and offset this five.
I'm going to offset this one 10 and then I'm going to offset this one five. I'm now going to actually I'm going to delete this line out and I'm going to offset by one this line up three. Now I'm going to do a trim command.
I'm going to go ahead and click and drag through these lines. Click and drag through these lines and then click escape. Drop a window across these lines and erase them.
I'm going to take this window here. I'm going to go ahead and do a bmake command. So I'm going to type bmake to make a block inside of this drawing.
I'm going to call this block title block and I'm going to go ahead and specify my base point on screen. I am going to convert everything in the drawing to a block and I'm going to allow exploding. I'm going to go ahead and click ok.
I'm going to specify my base point right here. I'm going to go ahead and hit escape. I'm going to go ahead and file, save as.
I'm going to save this into my working folder as title block. I'm going to click save. I'm going to go ahead and close this and I'm going to go back into my civ 203 fin.
From here I'm going to navigate to my layout one tab. I'm going to go ahead and go to my insert. I'm going to go drop down insert and do blocks from library.
I'm going to go ahead and navigate here to browse block libraries. I'm going to go ahead and choose title block. I'm going to click open.
So from here civil 3D is going to load up all of the blocks that were inside of this title block drawing. I could have purged this before but I didn't. So I'm going to go ahead and navigate down until I find the block inside the drawing titled title block.
I'm going to go ahead and select title block. I'm going to come over to the drawing over here. I'm going to redefine my block because I have already tried to attempt to insert this title block.
You shouldn't have this yet. I'm going to go ahead and insert it at zero comma zero and then I'm going to go down to layout one right click and I'm going to go to page setup manager. So inside of the page setup manager which is being brought into the screen now I'm going to go ahead and modify my layout one.
I'm going to drop down. I'm going to select an arc d 24 × 36. I'm going to choose it in landscape mode.
I am going to choose window. I'm going to go from this bottom corner to this top corner. I'm going to center my plot and I'm going to go ahead and click okay.
I'm going to click close and I'm going to close my blocks over here. Now I have this viewport that was already inside of this drawing. I have my title block set up and I'm going to go ahead and save this drawing and meet you in the next video.
