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Apply profile styles

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- [Narrator] We've discussed how to create and edit profiles and profile views. Now let's take a look at applying styles and annotations to them. We'll begin with profile styles. I'll zoom into my Jordan Court profile view, and here we see that we have two profiles. The finished ground profile in black, the existing ground profile in red. I'm going to select the existing ground profile and then pick properties from the ribbon. That opens my properties window. And you can see that the current style is set to existing ground profile. I'll click that drop down and I'm going to pick the one at the top called no display. That causes the profile to disappear from the drawing. That's because if you were to go into this style and look inside of it, you'd see that all the components are turned off. So this is a way for us to keep data in our drawing, but maybe it's not visible in the drawing. So we don't see it and it doesn't plot, but it's still there for us to work with. Okay, let's select this finished ground profile. Before I do, I'm going to press escape, and that clears the selection of the existing ground profile, even though we can't see it, it is selected. And I'll select the finished ground profile. Let's change its style. The first choice I'll make, and if you notice it's currently set to design profile, we're going to change it to a style called layout. And this might be a kind of style that we use for design. I'll press escape to clear the selection. And you can see that we have different colors in this style. We've got lots of different markers. You can see this tangent is blue, but then once we get outside of the curve, it's black again and blue again. So lots of different colors signifying the different parts of the profile. So great for visualizing our design, but maybe not so great for plotting or the finished design. Let's try a different one. I'll select the profile, and this time I'll pick basic. I'll press escape, and you can see that basic lives up to its name. It's just a simple black line with no markers or anything like that. The next one we'll try is called design profile with markers. And if we check this one out, we'll see that it's similar to the first one we looked at. The one before we changed any of the styles, but this one has some additional markers on it for PDIs, PVCs and so on. So what about that existing ground profile that we made disappear in the drawing? How do we bring it back? We can't select it because it's not visible in the drawing area, but what we can do is access that object in Prospector. So over here on the Prospector tab of the tool space, remember that profiles are a child of alignment. So I first have to go to my alignments node center line alignments, and then Jordan Court. There, I see the profiles node, expand that, and I can see my two profiles. Jordan Court EG. Jordan Court FG. The one we want is Jordan Court EG. So what I'll do is right click the profile here in Prospector and then pick properties. Now this is a different kind of properties than the one over on the right. The one on the right is the AutoCAD Properties palette, and the one on the left is a Civil 3D specific object properties dialogue specifically for a profile and more specifically for the Jordan Court EGCL profile. From here, we can change the style and we're going to change it back to existing ground profile. I'll click okay. The profile will reappear, and you could see that it's now in that dashed red style that we'd like to see it in, in this particular instance. And that's how you can use profile styles to manage the appearance of your profiles for different purposes.

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