AEC Editor Tab (Options Dialog Box)

Use the AEC Editor tab in the Options dialog box to control the visibility of the design criteria warning marker, and settings that affect the Export To AutoCAD commands.

Solution Tip

Controls the visibility of warning markers. These settings control the behavior of warning markers for alignments, profiles, superelevation, and pressure networks.

Note: If both of these check boxes are cleared, the warning marker will not be displayed on any alignment, profile, or pressure network objects that violate the specified design criteria. However, the objects will still be validated against the specified design criteria. Warning markers will appear the Alignment Entities, the Profile Entities, and the Superelevation Tabular Editor vistas, and the Alignment Layout Parameters and Profile Layout Parameters dialog boxes. Pressure network warning markers will not appear in any other vista or dialog box.

Drafting

Displays the warning marker in the drawing window.

Plotting/Publishing

Displays the warning marker in plotted or published output.

Export to AutoCAD

Bind Xrefs

Binds xrefs to the host drawing when using the Export To AutoCAD commands, creating local block definitions. If you select this option, all xrefs and their dependent named objects become a part of the exported drawing.

Use Insert Method When Binding Xrefs

• Selected: The drawing names of the xref drawings are discarded when the exported drawing is created. In addition, the xref layers and styles are incorporated into the host drawing, and layers with the same name acquire the properties of the layers of the host drawing.

  This option binds the xref to the current drawing in a way similar to detaching and inserting the reference drawing. Rather than being renamed using blockname$n$definitionname syntax, xref-dependent named objects are stripped of the xref name. As with inserting drawings, no name-incrementing occurs if a local named object shares the same name as a bound xref-dependent named object. The bound xref-dependent named object assumes the properties of the locally defined named object. For example, if you have an xref named FLOOR1 containing a layer named WALL, after binding with the Insert option, the xref-dependent layer FLOOR1|WALL becomes the locally defined layer WALL.

• Cleared: The xref identities, such as layer names, are retained when you export a file to AutoCAD.

  By clearing this check box, xref-dependent named objects are changed from blockname|definitionname to blockname$n$definitionname syntax. In this manner, unique named objects are created for all xref-dependent definition tables bound to the current drawing.

  For example, if you have an xref named FLOOR1 containing a layer named WALL, after binding the xref, the xref-dependent layer FLOOR1|WALL becomes a locally defined layer named FLOOR1$0$WALL. The number $n$ is automatically incremented if a local named object with the same name already exists. In this example, if FLOOR1$0$WALL already existed in the drawing, the xref-dependent layer FLOOR1|WALL would be renamed FLOOR1$1$WALL.

Filename Prefix

Adds the specified prefix to a file created with the Export To AutoCAD commands.

Filename Suffix

Adds the specified suffix to a file created with the Export To AutoCAD commands.

Block Properties of Exploded Object

Maintain Resolved Layer, Color, Linetype

Maintains the layer, color, and linetype of AutoCAD Civil 3D objects when you explode them.

When you explode an object, you create several primitive objects grouped in a block definition. If this option is selected any objects whose component layer, color, and linetype properties are set to ByBlock take the layer, color, and linetype of the parent object. If this option is cleared, when you explode an object, properties that are ByBlock remain ByBlock. Clear this option if you want to explode the block definition even further.

Unselected Grip Colors

Controls the colors of several types of unselected grips.

Object

Specifies the color of the AutoCAD Civil 3D unselected object grips. For example, if you click on a profile, the unselected grips use this color.

Secondary Object

Not used by AutoCAD Civil 3D.

Style

Not used by AutoCAD Civil 3D

Auxillary

Not used by AutoCAD Civil 3D

Note: The other settings on this tab are not used by AutoCAD Civil 3D.